Re: flexfax: other modems

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

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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Guilt wrote:

> I've just start trying to use Hylafax for a job where I
> work. I've tried using faxaddmodem to no avail on the Acer
> external modems that we sell. I know it works 'cause I can
> talk with it in minicom, but when it goes to detect the
> speeds at which it can talk to the modem the modem just
> doesn't respond.

What does "probemodem" say?

> Is this 'cause its a non-supported modem, or maybe I'm
> using the wrong dev (/dev/tttS0), or do I need to pass
> faxaddmodem some more arguments (I never made it all the
> way through that section of the Doc's)?

Is there another job, such as mgetty, already sitting on the modem
serial port? Or on the associated port previously used for UUCP
(/dev/ttyS0 and /dev/cua0 under older RedHat Linux)?

> This is a simple PC running Slackware 4.0. Outside of this
> they aren't any problems.

Hard to say: more details on the error messages would be
good. I don't know who else is runing Slackware....

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

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