usr 5610 modem, was: Re: Installing Speakup

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 10:14:08PM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
> Yes!  It worked fine.  I can connect now!
> 

Good to hear. Although I can't help thinking that I should have made
sure you had a /dev/ttyS4 file, before sending you on a goose chase,
sorry about that. 

> I still have a couple questions.
> 
> Why is there not a /dev/ttyS0 file.  My Litetalk is on com1 in DOS and I am using it with Speakup on the same port fine.
> 

Don't know. You could create it however with:

mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64

> How can you learn what commands are available, what they do, and what the options and switches are?  For example, the mknod command.  I like to know what things mean that I type.
> 
> What is a good source for learning Linux basics?
> 

Well, if you know what command you're looking for, you could type man
commandname, and you'll get the manual page for commandname. For
example

man mknod

would give you the mknod manual page.

As for learning about using the system in general, I found the
documentation at 

http://www.tldp.org

to be helpful. I also seem to recall that debian's site has a wealth
of documentation specific to debian, though I didn't look at that
much, since debian was not my first distro, and I already new in
general what I was dealing with.

Good luck, and happy exploring.

Greg



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