Re: [hylafax-users] AW: Hylafax doesn't know what modem to use

[Brian Marr <cabernet@internode.on.net>]

I wonder if this informative reply could be turned into a mini isdn fax how-to 
? Then some if us none technophiles could also try capi.

Brian Marr 

On Thursday 17 October 2002 17:17, you wrote:
> Hello Bernard,
>
> as I see You are using a ISDN Card to send and recive Faxes.
> But Hylafax dosen't support at the moment ISDN Cards.
> So you needs some trics to register the Fritz Card taht Hylafax can use it.
> First questtion: Did you generate with capi4hylafaxconfig a config file
> calles /etc/hylafax/config.faxCAPI ?
> If yes then you can register the Fritz Card at Hylafax.
> C2faxsend is part of the capi4hylafax and has nothing to do whith hylafaxl.
> Did you allready registerd the Fritz Card (faxCAPI) at the Hylafax System?
> If not You have to register the card with "faxmodem faxCAPI".
> Now Hylafax knows the new device.
> You should not!!!!!!!! and thas very important try to register a modem
> whith the device /dev/capi20 at the hylafax System.
> Because the emulated modem device has other ATA Cammoans then a analog
> Modem has.
> If You have registerd a modem with faxaddmodem /dev/capi20 try to delete
> the modem.
> Just remove your old config.capi20 and restart hylafax.
> In order to use c2faxrecv (it has nothing to do whith Hylafax Server, it
> just hepls You to biuld a bridge betweeen CAPI and Hylafax),
> You have to put "/usr/share/doc/capi4hylafax/examples/sample_faxrcvd" as
> "faxrcvd" in /var/spool/hylafax/bin and edit the dokument, for youre needs.
>
> I hope these helps You a litle bit.
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Martin Szymanski [mailto:szymanski@nlcom.nl]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2002 16:29
> An: 'Bernard Jech'
> Cc: hylafax-users@hylafax.org
> Betreff: Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax doesn't know what modem to use
>
>
> Hi Bernard,
>
> I did run faxaddmodem and I chose capi20 as the modem device. The setup
> continues fine untill it tests the modemspeed, and then it fails. I suppose
> it doesn't write the configuratin file that way ....
>
>
> the ls config* command in the /var/spool/hylafax/etc dir gives the
> following results
>
> config  config.c2fax  config.faxCAPI
>
> so the config.capi20 file is missing.
>
> b.t.w. I'm using capi20 because I have an ISDN Fritz! card installed and
> I'm using Capi drivers and capi4hylafax.
>
> I can send faxes using c2faxsend, so the hardware is working.
>
> Thank you for your help,
> Martin
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Bernard Jech [mailto:bjech@wayport.net]
> Verzonden: woensdag 16 oktober 2002 16:21
> Aan: Martin Szymanski;hylafax-users@hylafax.org
> Onderwerp: RE: [hylafax-users] Hylafax doesn't know what modem to use
>
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Martin Szymanski wrote:
> > Faxgetty was running. I looked in the /var/spool/hylafax directory and
> > only the FIFO file. The FIFO.capi20 is missing? What can I do to fix
> > that problem?
>
> Did you run faxaddmodem? It seems like you don't have a configuration file
> for that modem or something. When you look into /var/spool/hylafax/etc, do
> you have the following files there:
>
> 	config
> 	config.capi20
>
> How do you start faxgetty? From inittab? How the inittab line looks like?
> Is the device name /dev/capi20? Can you talk to the modem with kermit,
> minicom, tip or similar program when you actually point the program to
> talk to /dev/capi20? The default for minicom is to use /dev/modem, so make
> sure you are actually really talking to /dev/capi20. /dev/capi20 is a
> strange name for a modem device anyway. I would expect /dev/cua* or
> something similar.
>
> Bernard
>
>
>
>
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