Please offer /dev/ttyS4 option.

I find it counterintuitive that ttyS4 is not offered.

Most internal hardware modems are made by USRobotics. They are not serial devices, but rather PCI devices, and are faster than external Serial modems. They need to be configured to ttyS4 (COMM 5). I am not talking about win modems.

The only Distro that runs from a CD that offers ttyS4 is Damm Small Linux. A derivitive of Knoppix.

It is a bit much to expect a window use to pop in the Knoppix CD, and them to go to the command line to configure the modem, just to configure the modem. They do not yet know the Linux command line. A newbie really needs access to the web immediately to hone their linux skills.

I did not see an option to activate the modem once it is configured.

I am sending this message from my Fedora Core 3 machine, in which the modem is configured to ttyS4.