Re: flexfax: faxgetty and internet simultaneously

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

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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Ekkard Gerlach wrote:

> My Problem: with=20
>=20
>     mo:23:respawn:/usr/lib/fax/faxgetty ttyS1
>=20
> in /etc/inittab I can receive faxes but I can=B4t
> start a ppp-internet connection, beause faxgetty
> disturbs before, during or after dialing.=20
> I think its because
> pppd locks /dev/modem and not /dev/ttyS1.
>=20
>=20
> With=20
>=20
>     mo:23:respawn:/usr/lib/fax/faxgetty /dev/modem

/dev/modem should be a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS1 for your setup.

> in /etc/inittab I can start a ppp-connection, I can
> send faxes but I can=B4t receive them because
> faxgetty ignores incoming calls. There are no reactions
> in /var/log/messages, too.
>=20
> BTW, my ppp-connection is directed to /dev/modem.=20
>=20
> What can I do ?=20

Make sure that "RingsBeforeAnswer" is not set to 0 for the config.modem
file.

> A little bit strange: faxgetty sometimes can=B4t lock=20
> the modem although there are definitively no other=20
> processes that may try to access the modem. The ppp-
> connection is explicitely invoked by a user.

Hmm. Check that both of them create the lock files with the same names
and in similar text or binary format, in /var/lock for Linux
installations.

=09=09=09Nico Kadel-Garcia
=09=09=09Senior Engineer, CIRL=20
=09=09=09Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
=09=09=09raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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