Re: flexfax: FaxGetty and ppp?

[George Zeigler <genz1968@mtu-net.ru>]

Thanks Christoph,
	That's good.  And too bad. So it has nothing to do with my very
frustrating problem in "Help! HylaFax won't handshake".

George

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, yo
> 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
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