Re: [hylafax-users] Modem unresponsive

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:36:55PM +0100, edward@evdj.demon.nl wrote:
> I've been working on getting HylaFax up and running on
> our Sun Enterprise server running Solaris 2.6
> I got a binary distribution somewhere (think it was a
> site with harvard in its hostname), version 4.1beta1

Welcome to the Jungle.  :-)

IIRC, the source distribution compiles pretty cleanly on Polaris; if
you have compilers, you might want to consider pulling the release 4.1
-- there were *lots* of productive changes, most of which are almost
certainly not what's troubling you here.

> After getting ghostscript from sunfreeware.com I could run faxsetup
> and faxaddmodem. Faxaddmodem detects my modem (a Dynalink) and
> correctly configures it.

It does.  Ok...

> But now whenever faxsend starts doing it's job things don't seem
> to work. No lights on the modem show any activity (ie. modem
> initialization doesn't start) and faxstat keeps saying it is
> initializing the modem. At that point there is indeed a faxsend proces
> present, but nothing seems to happen.

Hmmm... you can tip into the modem port and dial by hand, and such,
right?

> I've also tried faxgetty but that after a timeout it complains that
> the modem appears to be wedged.

This sounds, so far, like a communications problem.  But what's a bit
weird is that faxaddmodem would talk.  What port do you have faxgetty
pointed to?

> What is happening here, and more importantly what can I do to make
> it work? I've already got HylaFax up and running fine one a Linux
> machine (Suse/i386) an connected one of it's modems to the Solaris
> machine. The Solaris machine has an extension block with the 8 serial
> ports, but since faxaddmodem has no problems with that, I would expect
> that faxsend would work as well.

It should, as long as they look like hardware serial ports with modem
control.

> Please help as I really need to get this to work (I got 18 similar
> servers all waiting anxiously for me to install HylaFax on them).

Welcome to the Jungle indeed.  :-)  Double check that you can contact
the modem using the same device name that faxgetty is trying to use...
and isn't there something about soft carrier that's weird on Slowlaris?

I'm pretty sure we've got a Solaris guy around here somewhere, you
may get more detail thoughts than these...

Cheers,
-- jra

Cheers,
-- jra
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