Re: [hylafax-users] faxaddmodem won't see the modem

[Eric Veldhuyzen <eric@telemediair.nl>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:49:24AM -0600, Lee Howard wrote:
> At 03:26 PM 4/2/01 +0200, Eric Veldhuyzen wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 05:18:48AM -0600, Lee Howard wrote:
> >> At 12:55 PM 4/2/01 +0200, Eric Veldhuyzen wrote:
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >I just tried to install Hylafax from the stable Debian distribution
> >> >(version 4.0.2-14).
> >> 
> >> Uninstall this and install 4.1beta3 from source.  I just did this Thursday
> >> evening with Debian, so I know that it works fine.  Believe me, you *don't*
> >> want to use 4.0pl2 when you can use beta3.
> >
> >I have just installed the 4.1beta3 version and it has the same
> >complaint. I won't find my modem. Anmd I am really surte that it it
> >there and working and it isn't used by any other program.  Does anyone
> >have any other suggestions?
> 
> You're probably referring to the device improperly, or something's weird
> like that.
> 
> So if your modem's on /dev/ttyS1 you're running 'faxaddmodem ttyS1' and
> *not* 'faxaddmodem /dev/ttyS1' right?

Right. The program won't even work if I try to start it with /dev/ttyS1:

# faxaddmodem /dev/ttyS1
/dev//dev/ttyS1 is not a terminal device.
Serial port that modem is connected to [/dev/ttyS1]? 

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