Re: FW: flexfax: "Waiting for modem to come ready!" with more thantwo modems!!

[Evan Leibovitch <evan@bigbird.telly.org>]

Hi, Karl. Long time no hear...


> > > You may want to investigate an intelligent serial IO board such as a
> > > RocketPort. You can get several (8 or 16) ports on one IRQ.

...and some intelligent boards use *no* interrupts.

> > > One bit of warning: I've never tried *any* intelligent serial board on a
> > > linux system, but I have tried them on an older Intel based unix system. The
> > > intelligent IO boards just never seemed to have the bugs worked out.
> > 
> > The Cyclades 8 port board works well.  We use it with Hylafax.

> I used a Digiboard PC/8e with FreeBSD and Hylafax.  No problems with all 8
> modems blasting away.

I'm not doing Karl's volume, but I'm having very good success running
Hylafax, using Linux systems with Comtrol Rocketport boards.