Re: flexfax: Probemodem & Faxmodem Fail

[Ulrich Eckhardt <Ulrich.Eckhardt@transcom.de>]

CN Liu wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm sorry to post this problem several times as I am still unable to
> overcome this obstacle.
> 
> I fail to configure hylafax 4.0pl2 for Zyxel 1496E in Linux 2.0.35
> (upgraded from Slackware 3.5) on IBM Netfinity 3000.
> 

> mail:/var/spool/fax# faxmodem -c
> "(0,1),(0-5),(0-2),(0-2),(0,1),(0,1),(0),(0-7)
> " ttyS0
> FIFO: open: No such device or address
> mail:/var/spool/fax# ls -l
> prw-------   1 uucp     10              0 Oct 28 19:28 FIFO|
> drwx------   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Oct 27 18:08 archive/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Dec 23 14:20 bin/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Oct 29 18:55 client/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Dec 23 19:04 config/
> prw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Dec 23 19:07 ttyS0|
> ....
> (I manually created ttyS0| manually before running faxmodem -c.)
> 

Hi,

do not create the fifos manualy. Try removing FIFO| and ttyS0|  
and run then faxmodem. Also ttyS0 is the wrong name and has wrong
permissions.

It looks here like :

prw-------   1 uucp     uucp            0 Jan 22 09:46 FIFO
prw-------   1 uucp     wheel           0 Dec 31 08:30 FIFO.ttyS0    

Uli
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