flexfax: Re: hylafax running - no ppp-connection on the same modem?

[Peter Bär <comet.friend@gmx.net>]

If you want to run Hylafax and PPP on the same modem with wvdial
unter SuSE Linux, you have to make a small change in the wvdial 
configuration file.

As standard wvdial (at least as SuSE supplies it) uses /dev/ttySx
(x is a number denoting the serial line the modem is connected to),
but faxgetty wants to use /dev/modem. As the locking is done by
checking the existence of files with the serial line name, PPP
creates a file /dev/ttyS1 (if x=1) and faxgetty creates a file
/dev/modem. The same line is locked twice, and neither software
can work as it should.

Just change /dev/ttyS1 to /dev/modem in the wvdial configuration
file, and it should work.

	Peter
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