75913 – slmodem should look for /dev/ppp node

Bug 75913 - slmodem should look for /dev/ppp node

Summary: slmodem should look for /dev/ppp node

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Alin Năstac (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2004-12-28 06:52 UTC by Thomas Bettler
Modified:	2004-12-29 13:56 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Thomas Bettler 2004-12-28 06:52:46 UTC

slmodem init script should look for /dev/ppp node

i.e.

+test ! -z /dev/ppp && /bin/mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0

I encounter an error, because I use udev without tarball, so /dev/ppp is missing by default.
I don't know if this fix is correct in the sense of udev.
Maybe it should go somewhere into hotplug or modules or somewhere else.

What's best?

Comment 1 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-29 13:56:54 UTC

I've inserted creation of /dev/ppp in slmodem-2.9.10-r3.
However, I cannot guarantee that node will be there after you reboot. Best mode to be sure it gets created is to add ppp_generic to autoloaded modules list (udev will create the /dev/ppp).