Re: flexfax: hylafax + ppp with mgetty

[Ekkard Gerlach <SPS_Gerlach@online.de>]

Frédéric Malenfant wrote:
> 
> As you can saw on that mailing list, I was searching since some days to find
> how to connect to my fax with a ppp connection via mgetty...
>

I just started searching today ...
 
> I just found how, and it works very fine!

I´m happy ...

> 
> For those interrested, here is how (works for RedHat 6.X)
> 
> install the mgetty package

Plase, which version of mgetty ? (I´m working with Suse)
(find it with: rpm -qa | grep mgetty)
You don´t find it? -> type "locate mgetty" an guess i.


Did I understand you right: now you can dial in 
your linux-maschine from another host by modem
and setup a ppp-IP-connection 
AND (not parallel, of course) receive and send
faxes on demand ?? And you don´t need faxgetty ?

Where do you start mgetty? With normal startup-
scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/???   (e.g. mgetty)
(BTW: faxgetty on my maschine has to be started in 
inittab by  
   mo:23:respawn:/usr/lib/fax/faxgetty /dev/ttyS1)


If you can build a ppp-IP-connection, does mgetty do
this with the configuration you described ? Or
are there other configuration files necessary ?

tia
Ekkard