Ron Dean wrote:

I have an old fax modem 33k that I would like to set up as a fax. when I run the automatic dectection as a modem it detects the device as /dev/ttyS0 . However when I try it out as a fax it looks for /dev/modem which it does not find and looking in the dev directory it doesn't exist So I was wondering if I should create a file and put symbolic link between the files.

But I don't really know how to do this

sudo ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem Alternatively, you should be able to tell your software to simply use /dev/ttyS0 (COM1 under DOS/Windows). Cheers, Greig.