Re: flexfax: Modem probe problems -- Newbie stuck

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

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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Charles Roy wrote:

> Ok,
> I have installed Hylafax 4.1beta1 successfully on Redhat 6.0 machines.
> 
> I am now trying to install HylaFax on a Redhat 6.1 machine.  No extra
> software has been installed onto the machine yet.  I want to install HylaFAX
> before going any further.

Check out my notes at http://cirl.meei.harvard.edu/hylafax/linux/

> Yet when I enter:
> cu -l /dev/ttyS0
> 
> I receive the message:
> cu: open (/dev/ttyS0):  Permission denied
> cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use
> 
> I also get the same message when I probe ttyS1

Looks like some process owns the line, *OR* the line has not been configured
with setserial. Is this an internal modem? Have you run isapnp to configure
it if it is?

> RH 6.1 did notice the modem at startup and asked to configure it.  So I said
> yes to have the system configure it.

That's good. Run "fuser /dev/ttyS0" to see what process owns the port, and
check out /var/lock/ for lock files.

> PS:  I have had this problem on THREE different Redhat 6.1 installations.
> And booting to DOS and running MSD to diagnose the machine indicates the
> serial ports are running just fine.

Booting to DOS is *NOT* gonna help you here. DOS handles the ports very,
very differently.

> PS:  This seems to be different than RH 6.0 where I can CU to the modem
> without a hitch from a full install.

It should work....

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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