RE: flexfax: Redhat 6 hfax RPM & split-device trick

["Alan Lehman" <alehman@gbutler.com>]

I was not aware of anything using cua?, however I simply deleted /dev/cua?
That seemed to fix the problem. Thanks for the help.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-flexfax@celestial.com [mailto:owner-flexfax@celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Jay R. Ashworth
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 4:23 PM
> To: flexfax@sgi.com
> Subject: Re: flexfax: Redhat 6 hfax RPM & split-device trick
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 08:38:31PM -0500, Alan Lehman wrote:
> > Does anyone have the Hylafax Redhat 6 RPM running successfully? It seems
> > to install ok and detect my modem, but faxstat -v always says 'waiting
> > for modem to come ready'. There is an item in the FAQ that mentions this
> > error and says it results from using the 'split-device' trick. Does
> > anyone know if stock RH6 uses this?
>
> If the "split device" trick refers to using /dev/cua? for _anything_,
> then likely not: /dev/cua has been deprecated since the 2.0 kernel
> release, and may well not work at all in 2.2, I haven't checked.
>
> If you're using /dev/cua? for _anything_ at all... please, go change it
> now.  It will make your life _much_ easier...
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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