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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!southern.co.nz!not-for-mail From: calvin@southern.co.nz (Calvin I. Varney) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ppp/hylafax confilct Date: 9 Mar 1996 10:14:45 GMT Organization: Southern InterNet Services Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4hrlml$bnr@orm.southern.co.nz> References: <4hbnnh$bqg@orm.southern.co.nz> <DntByv.6w@slugvine.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: kalessin.southern.co.nz X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] John Stark (jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk) wrote: : > : >Does anyone know if it is possible to have ppp running and : >still allow other processes to use of the modem? : : I'd quite like to know the answer to this too. I have tried running : faxgetty on /dev/ttyd1 and ppp on /dev/cuaa1. The impression I got from : the documentation was that causing ppp to dial the ISP would snatch the : serial port from Hylafax temporarily. What I actually observed was that : ppp hung indefinitely when it tried opening the port. If I got this working faxgetty and ppp are both working well for me, though I did give faxgetty cuaa0 (as is ppp) not ttyd0 by inserting the following line into /etc/ttys: cuaa0 "/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/cuaa0" dialup on Its just sendfax that has me stumped, have actually found that as soon as i invoke sendfax, ppp opens the connection to my isp, faxstat reports the modem busy and is waiting for it to come free, ppp times out because of no activity and then faxq will successfully deliver the fax. Why ppp makes a conection first i can't figure out.... calvin.