On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 13:11, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: <SNIP>
Dear Louis, That was clear and and in plain English. Have changed rings to wait before answering to 0 but the modem responded right away with any incoming calls. Changed it to 12 which also did not change anything so I can still not receive telephone calls ;-(
During the faxaddmodem the test of the speed was not successful resulting in three times following info: .............................. Probing for best speed to talk to modem: 38400 OK.
There was no response from the modem. Perhaps the modem is turned off or the cable between the modem and host is not connected. Please check the modem and hit a carriage return when you are ready to try again: ............................... And somewhere during the setup session I got following info: ............................... Warning, the dial string rules file,
/var/spool/fax/y
does not exist, or is not a plain file. This file must reside in the /var/spool/fax directory tree. ............................... Should I make this file handmade or should it have been made automagically?
As to networking, that is still a work in progress ;-) I have two computers connected with a twisted cable. They can ping each other but they have never exchanged any data up to now. Main system on the other computer drdos and a small slackware linux. Still have not found a way to let the computers exchange data although that must be easy ;-(. Modem works on both machines with a modem splitter.
It sounds like you are using an external modem. Many of these modems have switches on the back or side that change the way they opperate. You will need to see if the modem itself is set to autoanswer incoming calls. Please reply with the brand and model number of your modem and maybe we can check out the settings. You are very close ... hang in there. I would also connect the modem directly to the server, at least for the initial setup. Louis Richards