Re: [hylafax-users] Modem Initialization Issues

[jaboutboul@speakeasy.net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Howard [mailto:faxguy@howardsilvan.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 4, 2003 03:35 PM
> To: jaboutboul@speakeasy.net
> Cc: hylafax-users@hylafax.org
> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Modem Initialization Issues
>
> I tend to believe that you'll experience this kind of trouble as long
> as those cards share IRQs.  That cannot be done because faxgetty is
> monitoring all of them at the same time and there will be conflicts.
> It's pretty much only going to let one modem (of the shared bunch) work
> at any particular time.  You need to get into your system BIOS and
> change the PCI IRQ allocation scheme.  You may also want to refer to
> your motherboard manual as some slots may be forced to share IRQs with 
> other slots.  I tend to believe that sharing an IRQ with an inactive
> device (i.e. a LPT port) will be fine, but not with another active
> modem.  Unless you're doing other things with this system disabling the
> LPT port, USB ports, and on-board serial ports should be an easy step.
>
> Lee.
>

Dear Lee,

     I hear what youre saying but what suddenly happened that messed everything up?? The fax server was up for > 200 days and we never experienced this problem until last week. I believe everything started when we got a message saying a modem was wedged. HELP!!!



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