Re: [hylafax-users] Releasing modem

[Lee Howard <faxguy@howardsilvan.com>]

On 2002.07.19 14:23 Erick Thompson wrote:
> Good afternoon everyone,
> 
> I need to setup my Hylafax Linux server for ppp connection to the
> internet
> for a brief while. I've setup the modem as a network device in RedHat
> 7.3,
> but the system cannot get control of the modem. I believe that this is
> because Hylafax is using the modem. I set up Hylafax to use faxgetty (in
> /etc/inittab) instead of faxmodem. I've tried shutting down Hylafax, but
> that doesn't release the modem. What should I do allow me to dial out on
> the
> modem?

Your dialer and faxgetty should be referring to the device identically.

So, don't use /dev/modem with one and /dev/ttyS0 with the other.

Lee.

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