Re: [hylafax-users] Releasing modem

["Erick Thompson" <ethompson@nbr.org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Howard" <faxguy@howardsilvan.com>
To: "Erick Thompson" <ethompson@nbr.org>
Cc: <hylafax-users@hylafax.org>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Releasing modem


> 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.

I have both referencing /dev/modem. Should they work together without any
problem?

Thanks,
Erick




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