Re: [hylafax-users] Mac OS X Problem Solved

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:59:43AM -0400, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:30:34AM -0400, cbain wrote:
> >> I am attempting to port Hylafax to Mac OS X 10.1.5. 
> >
> >You are so our hero.  :-)  [ looks below ]  You're a release or so out
> >of date, though...
> >
> >> I have configured it as a class 2 modem. I am sending a low res fax from 
> >> a Panasonic fax machine. The receive log I get is shown below. If I set 
> >> the error tolerance lower, Hylafax rejects the fax and the sending fax 
> >> machine hangs up giving an error. An ideas as to what may be causing this 
> >> problem ? Help would be greatly appreciated:
> >
> >Hmmm... I dunno: do Mac's still have that "you can have hardware flow
> >control *or* carrier detect, but not both" silliness on the serial
> >ports?  This sounds like flowcontrol.
> >
> >Use class 1, though, if you can.  It's much classier than most vendor's
> >class 2 firmware, these days -- all hail the Gang.

> By changing the flow control setting in the configuration file to 
> 'rtscts', I can now send and receive faxes using the apple internal modem 
> as a class 2 modem under Mac OS 10.1.5.
> 
> I am not using 10.2 (Jaguar), the target customer is not running it 
> either, I will upgrade after I finish testing because I need it to work 
> with both versions.

Outstanding.  It would, I'm quite sure, be greatly appreciated if you
took some notes on the build process and install, and whipped 'em on
the list here, for inclusion, I would speculate, in Lee's Most
Excellent HOWTO...

Cheers,
-- jra
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