Re: [hylafax-users] Install HylaFAX

[Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 09.07.2006 12:43:53 schrieb(en) Fred Brooks:
> 'Probing for best speed to talk to modem: 38400 19200 9600 4800 2400
> 1200
> Unable to deduce DTE-DCE speed; check that you are using the correct
> device
> and/or that your modem is setup properly.  If all else fails, try the
> -s
> option to lock the speed.
> fred@fred-desktop:~$'
>
> I'm lost! I'm afraid I have no idea what 'try the -s option' means.

You should not use the -s option unless you are really hure that your  
modem is workig on the port (tty device) you specified.

You can try to talk to the modem with a terminal program like minicom  
or seyon. When you type the command "ATZ" the modem should answer with  
"OK". (It may take a few seconds because ATZ tells the modem to perform  
a reset.)


> 'Error KDEprintFax
> Fax error: see log message for more information.'
>
> I go to Fax>View log, and get:
>
> 'Converting input files to PostScript
> Sending fax to 0870 130 4926 (F J Brooks)

The front end is telling you that it has converted your document to  
PostScript and wants to send it using the sendfax command below. (This  
would not actually submit the job to HylaFAX and not directly send it.)

> Sending to fax using: /usr/bin/sendfax -n -h '/usr/bin/sendfax -n -h
> %server
> %res -d ''F J Brooks''@number -x '''' -c %comment -f %email
> '/tmp/kde-fred/kprinter_6302' '      -d 'F J Brooks'@'08701304926'
> '/tmp/kde-fred/kprinter_6302'
> number -x  -c %comment -f %email /tmp/kde-fred/kprinter_6302 :  
> Unknown host'

Did you copy this using cut&paste?
Are there really single quotes not double quotes?


The message

> number -x  -c %comment -f %email /tmp/kde-fred/kprinter_6302 :  
> Unknown host

means that sendfax thinks "number -x  -c %comment -f %email  
/tmp/kde-fred/kprinter_6302" is a host name.
Option -h wants an argument "[modem@]host[:port]". This matches the  
pattern "...F J Brooks''@number..." in your command line.
Obviously, the sendfax program gets a longer part of the command line  
as one single argument. That means the quoting is wrong.
Maybe the sendfax command was written with quotes in a document and you  
typed it including these quotes or you used single quotes instead of  
double quotes or you typed in the whole command line at a place where  
only a single parameter or some parameters should be entered.

Where did you configure the sendfax command line? In fax4CUPS?

> I do not understand how it can say: 'Sending fax to...', then nothing
> happens!

If "nothing happens" mean "the fax does not get sent" you are right.  
But something HAS happened: You have an error message in your log  
because the command to send the fax has failed.


Bodo

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