Re: flexfax: HylaFax (faxgetty) falls over again

[Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>]

As another avid Mac user I can understand the attraction, although I have to
say I am running Linux on several Intel machines with no sign of Microsoft
anywhere.

Then a couple of Mac clients complete the picture. Macs are great
workstations, but Linux just doesn't have the userbase under PPC to iron out
all the bugs. (IMHO)

Anyhow all I can say is that Hylafax is completely stable under Redhat 6.1,
Hylafax 4.1b1 on my systems. Sure I am having a terrible time writing a Mac
fax client driver, but that has nothing to do with the server component of
hylafax.

As a thought - have you tried ttyS1? I assume that maps to the printer port,
rather than the modem port. Could that make a difference? I know that the
hardware is not identical on each of those ports on all Macs. And you don't
have any software using the same port but locking it under the guise of
/dev/modem? Just some thoughts you probably already tried.

Best of luck.

Ari

on 4/1/2000 2:05 am, Iain Stevenson at iain@iainstevenson.com wrote:

> Ari,
> 
> You're right of course about the beta kernels - but the problem first
> manifested itself under 2.2.6 before I became a crazed kernel upgrader - so
> I'm looking for help to narrow down the area of failure.
> 
> My reason for upgrading to 2.2.14 was to see if it cured a problem I was
> having with another program - diald.  It didn't.  There is a bug in either
> this software or pppd which means it does not work properly on my Mac (through
> ttyS0 at least) without changes to the code.  I have, with help, found a fix
> for this.  I'm wondering whether Hylafax is equally Mac averse - and no, I
> won't buy a Wintel box :-)
> 
> Iain



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