Re: flexfax: USR Sportster: TIMEOUT

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Viktor Groth wrote:


> Environment:
> 	HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.0pl1
> 	USR Sportster 33600
> 	Linux

Which Linux? And hop on over to http://cirl.meei.harvard.edu/hylafax/
and take a look at the Linux installation notes there. They're not
complete, but they're a start.

> I try to setup one USR Sportster for in/outbound service (Class 1). Most
> of the time I see TIMEOUT problems in the log-file and receive mails that
> the modem appears to be wedged. 
> I have no idea what I did wrong. By the way, my configuration sometimes
> works. Please have a look at the log-file in the attachment.

Sportsters are famous for a lot of problems. Also have you got
something else running on /dev/cua0?

> Something else I do not understand: Why does faxgetty write the lock file
> in /var/spool/uucp, also I write in etc/config.ttyS0:                    
> UUCPLockDir:            /var/lock                   

That should be in your etc/setup.cache, generated when you run "faxsetup".

			Nico Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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