Re: flexfax: SuSE 6.3, latest Hylafax and SupraFax288

[iain@iainstevenson.com (Iain Stevenson)]

Ari,

The modem must be the prime suspect.  I run Comunigate on a Mac 6100/66 - it never did work properly with a USR Sportster modem.  It used to keep failing to recognise that it had succeeded in sending a fax.  Using the same modem with Hylafax was a complete disaster.  So, Communigate seems to be more tolerant of modem problems than the base install of Hylafax.

Your best bet is probably to buy an old Multitech modem like I did - it works better with Hylafax and Communigate!

Of course, running Linux on a Mac seems to have its own bunch of problems which seem mainly to be related to opening files - as far as my investigations have gone.

  Iain Stevenson



On Sat, Jan 15, 2000, 8:07:32 pm GMT Aristedes Maniatis wrote:


>>From what I have discovered so far, it may well be simply that you need to
>use another modem or another piece of fax software. In my case, I still get
>unspecified phase B errors much too often to consider Hylafax in a business
>situation.
>
>Some things I have tried (without any success):
>
>- downgrade to 4.0pl2
>- upgrade to 4.1beta2 (built from source)
>- 4.1beta1 rpm
>
>- xonxoff instead of rtscts
>- drop speed to 19200
>- class 1 setup (that just didn't work right at all!)
>- many different config options
>
>The trouble is that this modem was working absolutely 100% with another
>piece of fax server software (Communigate for Mac), but since I migrated our
>servers across to Linux for other reasons....  So I know the modem is not
>the problem on its own. But perhaps another modem would work better with
>Hylafax.
>
>My setup:
>
>- RedHat 6.1
>- most recent libtiff (3.5.4?)
>- Maestro 288 fax modem (Rockwell)
>
>
>I may well have to put that Mac box back just for the fax software...
>
>Cheers
>Ari Maniatis
>
>
>on 15/1/2000 9:14 pm, Manfred BERTL at cm.bertl@netzland.net wrote:
>
>> Hello experts!
>>
>> I tried to run Hylafax with a SupraFaxModem 288 on a SuSE 6.3. When a
>> call comes in, the modem answers the call, but cannot make a connection
>> and brakes with the following error:
>>
>> Jan 11 11:57:07.84: [ 5979]: <-- [4:ATA\r]
>> Jan 11 11:57:16.17: [ 5979]: --> [5:+FCON]
>> Jan 11 11:57:16.17: [ 5979]: ANSWER: FAX CONNECTION
>> Jan 11 11:57:16.17: [ 5979]: RECV FAX: begin
>> Jan 11 12:00:16.17: [ 5979]: REMOTE HANGUP: Unspecified Receive Phase B
>> error (code 70)
>> Jan 11 12:00:16.17: [ 5979]: RECV FAX: Unspecified Receive Phase B error
>> Jan 11 12:00:16.17: [ 5979]: RECV FAX: end
>> Jan 11 12:00:16.17: [ 5979]: SESSION END
>>
>> I've searched for this error in every documentation, and found in the
>> SuSE-Support-Database a solution, but not specific for my modem. I tried
>> that solution, but it is still the same error.
>
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