Re: [hylafax-users] Sharing phone line between pppd and hylafax

[Raymond Pau <rpau@starhub.net.sg>]

Thanks for your advice.

I finally get HylaFAX and kppp to share the same modem.
What I did was to reconfigure HylaFAX to use the symbolic link /dev/modem 
which kppp is using instead of the real device name /dev/ttyLT0.

Thanks!

On Monday 07 January 2002 16:41, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:31:08 +0800, you wrote:
> >I had been trying to setup hylafax to share the same phone line with pppd.
> >Hope someone can show me the correct configuration to achieve it.
> >I will be using the phone line mainly to access the internet but
> >occassionally I will want to send and receive fax.
> >Should I run faxmodem or faxgetty?
>
> HylaFAX will happily share the line, provided you use the same device name
> to indentify the serial line in all apps using the serial port. It doesn't
> matter if you use faxmodem or faxgetty.
>
> >I cannot access the modem once I had run faxgetty. Is this expected?
> >Using the command line :
> ># faxmodem ttyLT0
> >I get the following error: FIFO: open: No such device or address
>
> Maybe you need to run faxaddmodem ttyLT0

-- 
Raymond Pau
rpau@starhub.net.sg


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