Re: [hylafax-users] faxaddmodem won't see the modem

[Eric Veldhuyzen <eric@telemediair.nl>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 05:18:48AM -0600, Lee Howard wrote:
> At 12:55 PM 4/2/01 +0200, Eric Veldhuyzen wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just tried to install Hylafax from the stable Debian distribution
> >(version 4.0.2-14).
> 
> Uninstall this and install 4.1beta3 from source.  I just did this Thursday
> evening with Debian, so I know that it works fine.  Believe me, you *don't*
> want to use 4.0pl2 when you can use beta3.

Hmm. Really? I don't really like to use beta software on something which
will be a production server. This version is stable enough to be used?

> > The program faxsetup runs without any problem,
> >but I can't get the faxaddmodem program to recognise the modem.
> 
> >> Probing for best speed to talk to modem: 38400 19200 9600 4800 2400 1200
> >> Unable to deduce DTE-DCE speed; check that you are using the
> >> correct device and/or that your modem is setup properly.  If
> >> all else fails, try the -s option to lock the speed.
> 
> This is probably caused by some other process using the device at the time
> but not locking it properly.  Is it set up for PPP or something like that?

Ah, I just knew I forgot to mention something. No, this was of course
the first thing I checked. Nothing is using the device. I double checked
it with fuser and lsof to be really sure of that.

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