Re: flexfax: Probemodem & Faxmodem Fail

[CN Liu <cn@mail.sinyih.com.tw>]

CN Liu wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm sorry to post this problem several times as I am still unable to
> overcome this obstacle.
> 
> I fail to configure hylafax 4.0pl2 for Zyxel 1496E in Linux 2.0.35
> (upgraded from Slackware 3.5) on IBM Netfinity 3000.
> 
> These are what I tried:
> 
> mail:/var/spool/fax# probemodem ttyS0
> Hmm, there does not appear to be an fuser command on your machine.
> This means that I am unable to insure that all processes using the
> modem have been killed.  I will keep going, but beware that you may
> have competition for the modem.
> 
> Now we are going to probe the tty port.  This takes a few seconds,
> so be patient.  Note that if you do not have the modem cabled to
> the port, or the modem is turned off, this may hang (just go and
> cable up the modem or turn it on, or whatever).
> 
> Probing for best speed to talk to modem: 38400 19200 9600 4800 2400 1200
> 
> Unable to deduce DTE-DCE speed; check that you are using the
> correct device and/or that your modem is setup properly.  If
> all else fails, try the -s option to lock the speed.
> 
> mail:/var/spool/fax# cu -s 38400 -l ttyS0
> Connected.
> at+fsp=?
> 0,1
> OK
> at+fclass=2.0
> OK
> at+fcc=?
> (0,1),(0-5),(0-2),(0-2),(0,1),(0,1),(0),(0-7)
> OK
> mail:/var/spool/fax# faxmodem -c
> "(0,1),(0-5),(0-2),(0-2),(0,1),(0,1),(0),(0-7)
> " ttyS0
> FIFO: open: No such device or address
> mail:/var/spool/fax# ls -l
> prw-------   1 uucp     10              0 Oct 28 19:28 FIFO|
> drwx------   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Oct 27 18:08 archive/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Dec 23 14:20 bin/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Oct 29 18:55 client/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Dec 23 19:04 config/
> prw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Dec 23 19:07 ttyS0|
> ....
> (I manually created ttyS0| manually before running faxmodem -c.)
> 
> mail:/var/spool/fax#cu -l ttyS0
> Connected.
> AT&F
> OK
> 
> I suspected that there might be problems in the serial port (16550A
> chip, 9-pin socket). So I tried another PC (still 16550A chip, 9-pin
> socket). The tested results in the new PC are the same as those of IBM
> Netfinity.
> 
> Replacing Zyxel 1496E with GVC 336/288/144 modem still can not generate
> any workable speed by probemodem.
> 
> I also visited http://www.xtremeweb.de/hyla/ but found no ready-made
> configuration for Zyxel 1496E.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this same problem? Could anyone give me a
> ready-made configuration for Zyxel 1496E and show me how to manually
> tell hylafax to use that configuration file?
> 
> Thanks you!

Hello!

I am replying to my own question.

My problem is solved after I updated program cat. The new cat accepts -u
option. The old cat program did not accept this option and confused
probemodem and other hylafax tools.

Thank you all!

CN