Re: flexfax: Installing Hylafax

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Carlos Canas wrote:


> We are running RH6.1 and want to install Hylafax.  In order to do this,
> we are adding an additional two ports serial card as com3 and com4 (irq
> 11 and 12).  Since our computer original serial ports (com1/com2) are
> already taken by a modem (for the Internet) and a serial mouse.  How do
> we set Hylafax to look at either com3 or com4?

Bad idea: com3 and com4 typically use the same IRQ's as com1 and com2
(IRQ 4 for com1/com3, IRQ 3 for com2/comr).  Invest in a real serial
card with more ports and better interrupt handling: take a look at the
various Linux discussion groups for recommended hardware.

If you have to use extra com ports the way you describe, look at the
rc.serial files and set it up to configure your ports correctly at
boot time to be /dev/ttyS0 for com1 through /dev/ttyS3 for com4.

In fact, why don't you set up HylaFAX on the modem you currently use?

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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