Able to both receive and send Fax using emulated soft modem via mod_spandsp and HylaFax. <br>
<br>
Wikified at<br>
<a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/HylaFax">http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/HylaFax</a><br>
<br>
A big thank you to everyone!<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Alex Crow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:acrow@integrafin.co.uk" target="_blank">acrow@integrafin.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On 24/05/12 09:07, Anita Hall wrote:<br>
> Many thanks to everybody!<br>
><br>
> I will put this on wiki but I am stuck at the very beginning. I am<br>
> sorry for being such a noob but this is my first tryst with modems.<br>
><br>
> I have modems appearing as /dev/FS[0-4] which link to /dev/pts/[4-7]<br>
><br>
> # ls -l /dev/FS?<br>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2012-05-17 17:49 /dev/FS0 -> /dev/pts/4<br>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2012-05-17 17:49 /dev/FS1 -> /dev/pts/5<br>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2012-05-17 17:49 /dev/FS2 -> /dev/pts/6<br>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2012-05-17 17:49 /dev/FS3 -> /dev/pts/7<br>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2012-05-17 17:49 /dev/FS4 -> /dev/pts/8<br>
><br>
> But,<br>
> # cu -l /dev/FS0<br>
> cu: open (/dev/FS0): Permission denied<br>
> cu: /dev/FS0: Line in use<br>
><br>
> I think this is because FreeSWITCH is using this device, but then how<br>
> does HylaFax or any other program like cu talk to it ?<br>
><br>
> This page says that I should be able to check my modem before I<br>
> configure it with Hylafax.<br>
> <a href="http://www.hylafax.org/content/Handbook:Basic_Server_Configuration:Checking_your_Modem" target="_blank">http://www.hylafax.org/content/Handbook:Basic_Server_Configuration:Checking_your_Modem</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> regards,<br>
> Anita<br>
><br>
><br>
<br>
</div>The permissions on the links are not relevant. It's the permissions on<br>
the /dev/pts/* devices that take effect.<br>
<div><br>
Alex<br>
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