Re: [hylafax-users] newbie Qs for hylafax4.0 for sparc

[Sam Lau - SunIT CTO Intern <Samuel.Lau@aus.sun.com>]

Lee,

The faxstat message never returned 'idle' - always 'waiting for modem to come 
up' or similar...

I did run faxsetup and faxmodem and faxaddmodem before I ran sendfax.

Thanks I might try to compile the latest source!

Cheers,
Sam.


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> At 04:08 PM 12/8/00 +1100, Sam Lau - SunIT CTO Intern wrote:
> >Hi Guys,
> >
> >I'm *trying* to use hylafax 4.0 on an Ultra 5 with Solaris 8. 
> 
> Current CVS is known to compile on Solaris.  You may want to check it out.
> http://www.hylafax.org/cvs.php
> 
> >I have the libtiff 3.4beta037 package installed. 
> 
> not that it matters, but there are significant improvements between this
> and the current libtiff-3.5.5 version.  You may also want to upgrade it.
> 
> >After running faxsetup it detects my US Robotics 56k modem on /dev/term/b
> OK and 
> >when I do a 'faxstat -v' it says hylafax is running but then it says
> 'waiting 
> >for modem to come up'.
> 
> Does it ever say "idle"?  Some of the newer USR modems use a slightly
> different AT identification string than the older ones did.  Current CVS of
> faxaddmodem will automatically detect these new strings, but if you're
> using a non-CVS version of HylaFAX (for the time being), then you'll need
> to carefully prepare your config file.  Also, are you running faxgetty?  If
> not, then the faxstat message is not entirely relevant as I am describing
> it here.
> 
> > When I run 'sendfax -n -d [phone number here] [file]' 
> >from the same machine it tells me that the job has been sent to the queue
> but 
> >then nothing happens...ie the modem doesnt ring up or anything. I can see
> the 
> >jobs in the queue and I can 'ftp localhost 4559' or 'telnet localhost
> 4559' but 
> >thats it. The DCE-DTE baud rate is set to 38400 and flow control to RTSCTS.
> 
> Make sure you run faxsetup and faxaddmodem.
> 
> >Also, if I'm only sending faxes from the same machine the server process 
> >(/opt/local/fax/lib/hfaxd -o 4557 -s 444) is running on I don't have to
> setup 
> >any users in /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts right?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> Lee.
> 
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Sam.
> 
> 
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