[hylafax-users] Unable to initialize modem

[Edward van der Jagt <edward@evdj.demon.nl>]

I've posted this before, have since made several more tries, but am still
left with the same problem: faxsend is unable to initialize the modem.

Here's the whole story:
Sun Enterprise, running Solaris 2.6, hylafax 4.1beta1 binary distribution
(from: http://cirl.meei.harvard.edu/hylafax/sun/INSTALL-sunos4.1.x-4.1beta2.html)
Dynalink modem (both 1414 and 1456-R2 models tested) on the 8 port serial
expander box.
I installed the hylafax binary distro, and the necessary additional packages
from sunfreeware (ghostscript, etc.), ran faxsetup followed by faxaddmodem
Used /dev/cua/a001 (2nd port on serial expander box) as port.
Faxaddmodem detects the modem as it should (the 56k modem is a class2 with
Rockwell chip), and lights on the modem show the necessary activity.
I start both the faxq and hfaxd processes. Start faxmodem cua_a001modem 
Faxstat now shows everything to be fine.
I use sendfax to place a job in the queue.

But now things stop being fine.
Faxq now spawns a faxsend process. But this process ends and the syslog shows
a message about the modem being wedged.
If I look at the modem, I can see that DTR gets dropped (light goes out) and
nothing else happens from then on.

I've tried using a different terminal device (/dev/term/a001) but the same
effect (though the term device doesn't allow me to do "echo atz>/dev/term/a001",
that process sleeps untill I power cycle the modem, while the cua device does).
I've modified the servertracing and sessiontracing variables, but somehow do
not give additional messages in the syslog, while doing the same thing on
my i386/Suse box gives me loads of messages.

Seeing as the problem appears to start when DTR is dropped, I've tried changing
the related command to "" in the config file, but DTR still gets dropped and
the problem persists.
Changing the flow control between xon/xoff and rts/cts doesn't change anything
either.


Can anyone give my any tips on how to get this working ?
I'm getting pretty desperate, no make that frustrated, from all of this.

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                               Edward van der Jagt
                               edward@evdj.demon.nl
                               tel: +31-10-4502997
                               gsm: +31-6-24643561
                               fax: +31-10-4580632


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