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sugiono
2013-03-05
2013-05-13
  • sugiono

    sugiono - 2013-03-05

    please anybody can help me,

    first the :
    * communication UNCLAIMED

    what does it mean?

    second:

    the efax-gtk was able to detect but unable to write as input/output error

    how to fix this?

    thank in advance for any help.

    ciao
    sugi

     
  • Chris Vine

    Chris Vine - 2013-03-05

    The program does not emit "communication UNCLAIMED" so that is nothing to do with efax-gtk.

    You will have to be more specific about the second error and report exactly what happened.

     
  • sugiono

    sugiono - 2013-03-06

    thanks for reply.

    the log goes like this when i click standby button:

    efax-0.9a: 19:56:17 opened /dev/ttyS2
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:17 Error: fax device write: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:19 Error: tcgetattr on fd=8 failed: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:21 Error: fax device write: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:23 Error: tcgetattr on fd=8 failed: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:23 sync: dropping DTR
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:24 Error: tcgetattr on fd=8 failed: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:24 Error: tcgetattr on fd=8 failed: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:26 Error: fax device write: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:28 Error: tcgetattr on fd=8 failed: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:28 Error: fax device write: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:28 Error: fax device write: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:28 sync: sending escapes
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:28 Error: tcgetattr on fd=8 failed: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:28 Error: fax device write: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:28 Error: fax device write: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:29 Error: fax device write: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:32 Error: fax device write: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:34 Error: sync: modem not responding
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:34 Error: tcgetattr on fd=8 failed: Input/output error
    efax-0.9a: 19:56:34 finished - unrecoverable error

    any idea what is going on ? how to fix this?

    thanks in advance for your help.

    cheers,
    sugi

     
  • Chris Vine

    Chris Vine - 2013-03-06

    Possibly you have specified the wrong device as the modem.  Alternatively that device does not support faxing - in particular, not all soft modems do.

     
  • sugiono

    sugiono - 2013-03-07

    not really,

    this is what i got when I lspci

    01:02.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. Conexant SoftK56 Data/Fax Modem (rev 01)

    and when i sudo lshw

    *-communication UNCLAIMED
                    description: Communication controller
                    product: Conexant SoftK56 Data/Fax Modem
                    vendor: Conexant Systems, Inc.
                    physical id: 2
                    bus info: pci@0000:01:02.0
                    version: 01
                    width: 32 bits
                    clock: 33MHz
                    capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
                    configuration: latency=32
                    resources: memory:ff8e0000-ff8effff ioport:dc00(size=8)

    I think i need to sort out whether the driver is installed with the correct one, and how to direct the efax-gtk to use this pci.

    I tried to find the name of the conexant driver, something like /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 to input in efax-gtk field, but do not know the command

    suggestion on whether driver installed correctly and how to command efax-gtk or entered the correct hardware so that efax-gtk working would be appreciated, thanks

    regards,
    Sugi

     
  • Chris Vine

    Chris Vine - 2013-03-07

    If you have a Conexant software modem you are probably out of luck.  There are proprietary drivers available from a company called linuxant, but they have not been updated for a long time and will not compile with any recent kernels.  If you do manage to install a working modem, dmesg should tell you what its device file is, but it will probably begin with /dev/tty… .  It certainly won't be /dev/sda… , which are the device files for a hard disk.

     
  • sugiono

    sugiono - 2013-03-07

    hi C. Vine,

    Thanks for your replies

    I have an old computer here with all the periherals . I want to put it to good use, that is where i found efax-gtk.

    i tried the linuxant website, and install the modem detector, went through all the installation and got an error logfile that I emailed to your address separately ( just in case you need it for reference)

    Can you please inform me which kernel edition of linux or ubuntu should i install on my old computer, intel pentium 4 , 1.8 GHz with 512 MB RAM in order to get the efax-gtk run ( and if possible LAMP on same computer)

    Thank you again for your time.

    Regards,
    Sugi

     
  • Chris Vine

    Chris Vine - 2013-03-07

    "Can you please inform me which kernel edition of linux or ubuntu should i install on my old computer, intel pentium 4 , 1.8 GHz with 512 MB RAM in order to get the efax-gtk run ( and if possible LAMP on same computer)"

    I you are referring to your software modem, no idea, sorry.  You could try emailing linuxant but I suspect they do not operate as a business any more.

     

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