flexfax: Re: FaxGetty and ppp?

[Friedrich Schunn <schunn@tu-harburg.de>]

What about modems that don't need FaxGetty to listen all the
time if a new fax comes in, e.g. ELSA ML Office. Such modems
are able to receive facsimiles while the PC is turned off. For this
reason
I didn't start FaxGetty at all. So the Modem would store the fax in
its memory even while the PC is running. I use susefax/hylafax
only for sending facsimiles.

I would like to use hylafax to get the facsimiles stored in the modem
memory "on demand". Is this possible with hylafax?

As far as I've understood the docs FaxGetty is needed for receiving
faxes and FaxGetty has to be started while the system boots.

So is there a way to "read" facsimiles from the modem without
FaxGetty?

Friedrich

> Hi,
> this is completly normal, it only shows that
> faxgetty has realized some other process is using the modem
> and therefor it can't receiveor send  faxes at the moment.
> It will not interfer with your ppp-connection.
> Christoph
>
> George Zeigler schrieb:
> >
> > Hello,
>>          when I connect to the internet, I am getting a FaxGetty
comment in the
> > middle of all my ppp stuff.  What's it doing there.  Sometimes for
no apparant
> > reason, I have problems in that, I connect just fine with kppp (ppp
frontend in
> > KDE environment) but my email and Netscape can't find the server.
And I can't
> > ping, even though I'm connected.  Rebooting is the only thing that
helps.  Could
> > this be causing it?
> >
> > Thanks
> > George
> >
> > /var/log/messages
> > <snip>
> >         Jan 10 09:08:26 george kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand
dialling)
> > Jan 10 09:08:26 george kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
> > Jan 10 09:08:26 george kernel: registered device ppp0
> > Jan 10 09:08:29 george FaxGetty[185]: ANSWER: Can not lock modem
device
> > Jan 10 09:09:11 george pppd[1214]: pppd 2.3.8 started by root, uid 0

> > > Jan 10 09:09:11 george pppd[1214]: Using interface ppp0
> > Jan 10 09:09:11 george pppd[1214]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> > Jan 10 09:09:20 george pppd[1214]: Remote message: ^F