mgetty+sendfax, efax, hylafax not receiving faxes [solved]

cdf · Last edited by cdf on Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:42 pm; edited 1 time in total

I've been trying to set up a fax server lately. I can get efax to send a fax just fine, but I can't receive a fax. I've tried mgetty+sendfax, efax, and hylafax, and all have the same problem: the incoming fax call is picked up, I hear modem sounds, and after 20-30 seconds I get messages in my log files and on the originating fax saying there was no answer. This doesn't make sense to me because the modem *did* pick up and there *were* modem sounds initially.

Anyway, I have two V.90+ external modems, one from CenDyne that I know for sure is a Data+Fax modem, and the other a ModemBlaster that I'm not sure about. But the above problem happens regardless of which one I use. I've Googled and Gentooled multiple times but I'm not finding much and I'm running out of ideas. It seems the dial-up world is a ghost town these days since the advent of affordable broadband...

Thanks,
Curtis

tlailax · Apprentice Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 187

in hylafax, what do you have your modem configured as ? can you post it's config file ?
i've had a lot of problems getting hylafax to work with a USRobotics external modem till i switched it from class 2 to class 1.

cdf · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:47 am Post subject: modem config

Okay here it is. By the way I've tried it with Class 1 and Class2 and am still getting the same problems.

cdf · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:53 pm Post subject: progress... some, anyway

An update: I can use both efax and efax-gtk to manually receive faxes when a call is coming in, even though both apps report reception errors. But it has to be set up to automatically monitor the line and answer, so I'm still looking...

cdf · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:33 pm Post subject: it's working!!!

It works now, but I don't know why. The first time I tried putting an efax line into /etc/inittab and rebooted, it worked. And since then I've had no trouble doing what I was doing last night (recieving via 'efax answer' on the command line). I think I was having hardware issues too, because one of my modems randomly fails to correctly answer or dial out until it's manually turned off and back on again. Also, I discovered this morning that the external machine I was using to send faxes has some problems of its own.

Thanks for trying to help anyway!!!