Re: [hylafax-users] Not answering - some funny responces

[frbn <frbn@efbs-seafrigo.fr>]

regarding the subject of your message
I think you want to receive something
so you should put RingsBeforeAnswer to 1
as 0 causes your modem *not* to answer.

by the way faxgetty should be launched
from /etc/inittab (according to the documentation)

Yobb wrote:
> Any help here would be great!
> 
> My file config.ttyS1 has the following
> 
> RingsBeforeAnswer:      0
> 
> and I have run faxgetty -D ttyS1 on a root account of the machine.  
> 
> when I type the following I get the error output as shown.
> 
> hammer:/etc/hylafax# faxanswer ttyS1
> dev_FIFO.ttyS1: open: No such file or directory
> 
> When I use faxstate I get the following output
> 
> hammer:/etc/hylafax# faxstate ttyS1
> dev/FIFO.ttyS1: open: Device not configured
> 
> Funny thing is that I can send faxes with the sendfax command.  As far
> as sending goes everything seems OK.
> I ran faxsetup and answered all of the prompts.  I also ran faxaddmodem
> ttyS1.  Is there something I have missed?



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