New Live CD User: Can not connect isp with modem.

Thu Feb 9 21:47:58 UTC 2006

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 12:10:28 -0500
ron <macroron at gmail.com> wrote:

>  am on Fedora Core3 and my Us Robotics Sportster pci modem works
> fine. My modem is recognized on ttyS14. When I boot up into the Ubuntu
> Live Cd and use the graphical modem setup my options are /dev/modem or
> /dev/S0 - /dev/S3. I have tried all settings but none work. The user
> logs say:  ttyS14 at I/O 0xa000 (irq=18) is a 165501 Can anyone help
> me?

Try 

sudo ln -sf /dev/ttyS14 /dev/modem

then choose /dev/modem in the set up configuration

Peter