- Hardware - HP Serial Ports
HP sells many models of muxes/serialports for 800 series machines.
Many are not suitable for use with fax modems
ie the J2092A and J2093A cards will not work
but the J2094A card will
Most of the EISA will work ok.
If the card is added in after the Operating System is installed
the kernel may need to be rebuilt with the correct mux/eisa driver
For more details see 'Configuring HP-UX For Peripherals' chapter 2
(this is included on the HP10 Laserrom CD)
- Hardware - Fax Modems
The faxmodem chosen is of critical importance for reliability
of operation. If possible especially for a machine running a
large number of lines try to get a class 2 or class 2.0 faxmodem.
Note many of the new K56flex modems only support class 1
Modems known to work well with Hylafax - USR Courier, most Multitech
and Zyxel models
There is a (somewhat dated) list of recommended modems at
http://www.vix.com/hylafax/modems.html
- OS Setup of Serial Ports
HP uses a three device scheme to represent the serial ports
- cuaXXX - direct
- ttyXXX - dialin
- culXXX - dialout
if these devices are not already created for the mux they can be
instantiated as follows
ioscan -C tty
to find the address of the mux port then
ioscan -d -fn
shows the device files created, if they are missing they can be
created with mksf
ie /usr/sbin/mksf -d mux2 -I 0 -a0 -p2 -i -v
making cua0p2 c 193 0x000201
/usr/sbin/mksf -d mux2 -I 0 -a1 -p2 -v
making cul0p2 c 193 0x000201
/usr/sbin/mksf -d mux2 -I 0 -a2 -p2 -v
making ttyd0p2 c 193 0x000202
The lssf command can then be used to view the device setup
For use with hylafax always choose the dialout or culXXXX device.
For more details see 'Configuring HP-UX For Peripherals' chapter 3
(this is included on the HP10 Laserrom CD)
- Software Required
As well as the binary are a number of other components required to
get hylafax going.
The additional parts are available from the Software Porting and
Archive Centre for HP-UX run by the HP-UX users group.
http://gatekeep.cs.utah.edu/
There are many mirrors to this site.
Whats Needed
- the hylafax binaries:
- hylafax-hpux10.20-v4.0pl2.depot.gz
- the ghostscript package:
- and tiffutils:
Note: If you already have other versions of this software on your machine
ie an older version of ghostscript please consult the hylafax documentation
about setting the corrrect parameters to use this.
- Installation
Install zlib, libpng, gs, gs-fonts, libjpeg and tiffutils using
swinstall, they will install largely to the /opt directory
ie swinstall -s /tmp/libpng0.96-sd-10.20.depot.gz
install the hylafax using swinstall(and cross fingers ;-) )
- faxsetup
Add /opt/hylafax/bin and /opt/hylafax/sbin to your path and
run faxsetup
- when it asks to run hfaxd from inetd.conf answer 'no'
- when it asks for a modem device to add specify the
/dev/culXXXX device file
Perhaps also run faxaddmodem at a later time to
add more modems
- startup script
A startup script 'hylafax' is provided in the
/sbin/init.d
directory.
Create links to automatically start and stop hylafax:
ie ln -s /sbin/init.d/hylafax /sbin/rc2.d/S95fax
ln -s /sbin/init.d/hylafax /sbin/rc2.d/K95fax
- Start hylafax
/sbin/init.d/hylafax start
- gettys
Add appropriate lines to
/etc/inittab
ie a2a1:234:respawn:/opt/hylafax/sbin/faxgetty cul2a1
and 'init q' to restart init, the modems lights should flash
Type faxstat to view the modems available
- cron jobs
From the superusers inittab run the following two processes
/opt/hylafax/sbin/faxqclean
/opt/hylafax/sbin/faxcron
faxcron typically once per day, and faxqclean
say every hour(or perhaps longer if you want to keep old successsfully
sent faxes)
- Test
Try to send a fax:
sendfax -d 12345678 mydoc
If that works - Congratulations!!! - and happy faxing.