[Nottingham] HylaFax

[Rupert Finnigan]

 Hi,

I run Hylafax with a couple of ISDN Diva Cards, but it's probably similar...

Are the FaxGetty's running? If you do a "ps aux | grep faxgetty", then you
should see a faxgetty process running for each of your "lines", in my case
ttyds01 - ttyds16. I can remember a problem with these not re-spawning after
handling a call. I had to add:

21:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty ttyds01

lines in my /etc/inittab to get them to respawn.

If this doesn't work, give me a shout back and I'll bother my brain cells
some more to try and remember what else I've had to make it work.

Cheers,

Rupes

2008/10/22 Matt Jones <msjones at fidler.co.uk>

> Hi martin.
>
> I am using Suse Linux Enterprise 10.0.
>
> The modem us running to an Avaya VOIP system which runs to a ISDN 30
> circuit.
>
> After running the lsof /dev/ttyS0 it just takes me back to a prompt.
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 22 Oct 2008, at 13:21, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Matt Jones wrote:
> >> Yep the modem is connected as /dev/ttyS0 and is all hooked up to the
> >> serial port. When using minicom I can initialize the modem and dial
> >> an
> >> outside line.
> >>
> >> What do you mean by reverse the polarity of my phone line connection?
> >
> > In domestic pstn phone lines, you get two or three wires that are
> > 'live'. Most modem leads only connect to two wires. There's 40 - 50v
> > dc
> > (and high source resistance) on there with your phone 'on-hook' (not
> > in
> > use). Some electronic phones/modems require one of -40V or +40V across
> > their wires even though they should be polarity independent and either
> > way /should/ work fine. You may need to swap the two wires over in
> > your
> > slave phone socket/extension (you must not touch the 'master' socket),
> > or make up a two-wire adapter lead.
> >
> >> I have searched the web and followed many tutorials. But the end it
> >> always the same. I can fax to the queue but the modem status just
> >> keeps
> >> saying the same; waiting for modem to come ready.
> >
> > That suggests that either hylafax hasn't got read-write permissions to
> > the /dev/ttyS0 or something, or something else is keeping control of
> > /dev/ttyS0.
> >
> > Check permissions and check:
> >
> > lsof /dev/ttyS0
> >
> > Or you might just have the wrong initialisation string being sent to
> > the
> > modem.
> >
> >
> > Let us know what you find.
> >
> > What distro are you using?
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Martin
> >
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