On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 10:07, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Have installed and run hylafax. Seemed easier as it looked. Two problems which I have to solve. On one of my faxes I got the error response that the DN could not be received. The resulting fax (my office fax) showed only page one of two. As the other fax went without problem I can survive this problem. The other problem is that my home phone was out of order one whole day until we discovered that every caller got a fax tone after the first ring. A switching of of the modem was the solution but I assume that Hylafax/ mgetty has a software solution ;-). Have looked into the mgetty config file but did not find a solution, at least not one that I understood. Any help i plain English?
Do the following as root from a console or terminal. # faxaddmodem It will ask you which serial port your modem is connected to. Enter "ttyS1" (replace the number one with your port number). Now you should see a list of your modems settings and... Are these ok [yes]? no Enter no and each question will be asked again. Just hit enter until you see ... Rings to wait before answering [0]? Enter 0 Continue hitting enter for the rest of the questions. Next your modem will be tested for speed. If you are asked any questions about class 1 or 2, please choose class 1. Some modems will not work well as class 2. You can check in "/var/spool/fax/etc/config.ttyS1" that "ModemType" is set to "Class1" (if not ... change it). Also in the "/var/spool/fax/etc" directory is a file named "hosts.hfaxd". This file controls what other users and PCs can access the fax server. You are so close now ... why not go for a full blown networked fax server ;-) # man hosts.hfaxd The above command will bring up the man page for the file and it has examples near the end of it. You can ignore this part if you are not networked or just want to send faxes from the one PC. When finished, restart hylafax with ... # rchylafax restart Let me know if this works out for you. Louis Richards