Re: [hylafax-users] capi4hylafax (again) take 2 :)

[Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2004.10.27 09:32 schrieb(en) Gavin Hamill:

> Do you know how capi4hylafax actually works? I don't understand the
> data flow involved  - does 'c2faxrecv' emulate AT commands at /dev/ 
> faxCAPI or something?

No. capi4hylafax does not emulate a modem. I think c2faxrecv runs  
independently from hylafax and does the receiving on it's own. It  
creates FIFO.faxCAPI and uses FIFO in /var/spool/hylafax to communicate  
with hylafax.

For sending the program c2faxsend completely replaces the program  
normally used by hylafax.

> When I have /dev/faxCAPI symlinked to /dev/capi20 as guided by a
> tutorial whose URL I have lose, faxstat always shows 'Waiting for  
> modem to come ready',

On my system everything works without such a link. I don't think this  
link is useful for anything, because you cannot use /dev/capi20 like a  
modem device.
This link would make faxgetty happy when it checks for the existence of  
a device corresponding to the config.* file, but it would fail to  
initialize the modem. Faxgetty also complains about the config file  
because capi4hylafax uses a different syntax.

> and if this symlink is not present, then faxstat always shows
> 'Terminated' as the status - is this correct?
> I was expecting the traditional 'Running and idle' status..

Did you try "faxstat" after disabling faxgetty?

My system prints:
natira%mei ~> faxstat
HylaFAX scheduler on hedril.private.bodo-m.de: Running
Modem faxCAPI (+49.xxxx.yyyyyyy): Running and idle


Bodo

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