OK fax gurus, this mail's for you! I have gotten hylafax installed, ran faxsetup and actually sent faxes from both SuSEfax and printed to fax from kmail which also brings up the fax sending software. Faxes went out, receiver got them, fairly corrupt, but did get them! It seems the faxes received were chopped up. What I mean was, they printed some, missed some, printed some, missed some, etc., you get the picture. It was as if their machine was being fed the information too fast. I checked with the receiver to be sure their fax machine was working ok. It was as they had received several other faxes that same day. Now, I am not sure what is causing this problem, but I am pretty sure it's originating from my machine. Not sure if something misconfigured during the "faxsetup" program or I am missing something in using the fax frontends for hylafax. Thoughts, questions, suggestions? Patrick-- ========================= Ok, fax gurus, I seemed to have solved my hylafax problems quite nicely. For all those that put a thought into what might be causing the problem, thanks! :o) For those that didn't give it a second thought! :-P For any that might want to know how I got it fixed and Hylafax sending out nice faxes with SuSEfax program and even printing to fax, how neat that is! It seems that hylafax does not like Class 1 type modems or setups very much. It works, but only as I described above. After eliminating the settings files and running faxsetup again, noting that I had a Class 2 modem instead, did it work as expected. My modem supported both as most newer modems do now, so when answering those questions about what to use, answer Class 2 and you should have a well behaved fax setup with Hylafax! Patrick
The 03.03.02 at 21:56, PL O'Smith wrote:
After eliminating the settings files and running faxsetup again, noting that
Ah! I had another problem with hylafax - that it does not allow me to dial up on the same modem, a permission problem - and faxsetup does nothing, it does not enter the configuration. Which settings files did you delete?
I had a Class 2 modem instead, did it work as expected. My modem supported both as most newer modems do now, so when answering those questions about what to use, answer Class 2 and you should have a well behaved fax setup with Hylafax!
It never ocurred to me that that would be your problem... I was thinking it could be a broken modem or phone line, but didn't mention it, I wasn't sure - and now I see I was wrong :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Monday 03 March 2003 06:58 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.03.02 at 21:56, PL O'Smith wrote:
After eliminating the settings files and running faxsetup again, noting that
Ah!
I had another problem with hylafax - that it does not allow me to dial up on the same modem, a permission problem - and faxsetup does nothing, it does not enter the configuration. Which settings files did you delete? (snip) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
----------------------------- Carlos, If you are having permission problems, then check your /dev/ttyS0 to be sure that both owner and group have rw permissions. Hylafax changed mine to fax & uucp, rather than root & uucp that the other unused ttySx devices were. If your modem is connnected to another serial port, then look for the corresponding device. Also, if you decide to rerun faxsetup, I would recommend you make a copy of your /var/spool/fax/etc folder before doing so. The files you need to keep are cover.templ, dialrules, dialrules.europe, dialrules.sf-ba, lutRS18.pcf, dpsrpinter.ps & hosts.hfaxd. All others in that directory, you can delete before rerunning faxsetup. Patrick --- KMail v1.5 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
The 03.03.03 at 08:53, PL O'Smith wrote:
If you are having permission problems, then check your /dev/ttyS0 to be sure that both owner and group have rw permissions.
It useless, it changes back to _rw______ in seconds - I mean literally -. In order to receive faxes Hylafax added this to "/etc/inittab". # fax getty (hylafax) mo:35:respawn:/usr/lib/fax/faxgetty /dev/modem If I change the device permissions, faxgetty changes it back as soon as I start wvdial, which fails. The configuration script asked for which permmissions I wanted on the device, but I ignored that at first. Later, a second run of the script doesn't allow me to change anything!
Hylafax changed mine to fax & uucp, rather than root & uucp that the other unused ttySx devices were. If your modem is connnected to another serial port, then look for the corresponding device. Also, if you decide to rerun faxsetup, I would recommend you make a copy of your /var/spool/fax/etc folder before doing so. The files you need to keep are cover.templ, dialrules, dialrules.europe, dialrules.sf-ba, lutRS18.pcf, dpsrpinter.ps & hosts.hfaxd. All others in that directory, you can delete before rerunning faxsetup.
I'll try that, thankyou. I'll backup it, delete files, and rerun. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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