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Re: "Waiting for modem to come ready!" with more than two modems!!



Hi,

what kernel version do you have ? The 2.0.36 does not support
irq sharing. Therefore you need kernel 2.2.3 . 

Can  you access the modems e.g. via minicom ?

Uli

Dietmar Osterburg wrote:
> 
> Hallo there,
> 
> I use Hylafax Version  v4.0pl2 on an Intel-machine (i386) with  SuSE
> Linux 6.0
> 
> I want to run Hylafax with 4 modems, but only two are actuell running
> !
> The faxstat command tells me:   2 are running and idle!
>                                                 2 are toggling
> [waiting for modem come ready -> Initializing server -> .....]
> In /etc/inittab the four entrys are available:
[..]
> ** Each modem runs fine when I enter ONLY two faxgetty lines  in
> inittab. **
> 
> Each modem has its own serial port  (Port:2f8, Int:3     Port:3f8,
> Int:4     Port:2e8, Int:3,      Port:3e8, Int 4 ).
> Each Serial-Interrupt is shared by 2 Modems - this ( I think ) can be
> perhaps the problem.


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