It's been many years, but it seems that I have to receive a fax and might have to send one too. Is there a way to do this on CentOS 5.5? (Hope so.) tia. -- Anything is easy if you know how to do it.
It's been many years, but it seems that I have to receive a fax and might have to send one too. Is there a way to do this on CentOS 5.5? (Hope so.) tia. --------------------------------------------- Tia We have a vsifax system on a SCO unix machine that we plan to move to Centos. I plan to evaluate efax that is opensource on Centos before we pay for the vsifax. You might try installing 'efax'. I would be interested in following your progress Greg Ennis
At Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:41:10 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > It's been many years, but it seems that I have to receive a fax and > might have to send one too. Is there a way to do this on CentOS 5.5? > (Hope so.)Presubably you also have an analog modem? Almost all analog modems also understand sending and receiving faxes. There are several packages that implement the host end of the fax protocol using an analog modem that supports faxing, including the CentOS base packages mgetty and mgetty-sendfax. There are also all-in-one printers that implement faxing, but these can function standalone -- that is the all-in-one can behave like a regular fax machine without using a host computer at all (the HP OfficeJets can do all of this from either their front panel or though their internal web interface).> > tia. >-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:41 PM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote:> It's been many years, but it seems that I have to receive a fax and > might have to send one too. ?Is there a way to do this on CentOS 5.5? > (Hope so.) > > tia.There are plenty. "mgetty" is built-in. HylaFAX, written by Sam Leffler, who created TIFF and was one of the core authors of BSD, is still in popular and commercial use: It Just Works(tm). [I wrote the SunOS port of it years and years back, and broke down laughing at a job interview in England when the company said "oh, yes, we use some very old fax/modem software you'll need to deal with. It's called 'HylaFAX'". The "viewfax" tool from mgetty still remains the best tool for viewing the special tiffg3 files used for sending and receiving faxes, and the mgetty "voice" tools can help HylaFAX or mgetty handle voice messages too. But if you just install HylaFAX from RPMforge, it should Just Work(tm).
On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 22:41 -0400, ken wrote:> It's been many years, but it seems that I have to receive a fax and > might have to send one too. Is there a way to do this on CentOS 5.5? > (Hope so.)Hylafax; has been quietly running at work, without incident, for years. <http://www.hylafax.org/content/Main_Page>
Lamar Owen
2011-Mar-29 17:46 UTC
[CentOS] finding the right serial port, enabling & configuring it [was: Re: fax software]
On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:56:17 am Robert Heller wrote:> At Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:35:49 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > Internal... on a laptop... so a winmodem. :(> > > Almost all *internal* modems (esp. on laptops) are Winmodems and are > > > thus pretty close to useless under Linux.> > Yeah, I think you're right about the Winmodem.> The old PCMCIA modem card might not be a fax modem.There were a number of PnP PCMCIA winmodems, too. There are drivers for some winmodems for Linux for some really popular ones. The hard part with a laptop is determining what kind of modem it is, since they all hang off the AC'97 interfaces like a sound card would. You could have a Lucent, a Motorola, or even a 3Com chipset there. In my case, my laptop is a Dell Precision M65; Dell Precision workstations, including the mobile ones, are fully supported (and have been for a long time) under RHEL, and thus under CentOS. This includes 'linmodem' drivers for the Conexant chipset used in my M65; you can get that from Dell at: http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/hardy/modem-drivers/hsf/ While the directory is under the 'Ubuntu' section there is an RPM there you can try, if you have a Dell with a Conexant HSF winmodem, that is. You can also get commercially supported HSF modem drivers from Linuxant. See http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/modemident.php A few years back I actually was successful in using a Conexant modem under a version of Fedora (I think it was FC5 or FC6); but I've not used dialup in a long time, so I never kept that updated. For more information in the subject of using winmodems on Linux, check linmodems.org
Lamar Owen
2011-Mar-29 19:21 UTC
[CentOS] finding the right serial port, enabling & configuring it [was: Re: fax software]
On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 02:07:46 pm Robert Heller wrote:> Unless you spend serious bucks, ALL *PCI* modems are win modems (there > are one or two very high-end 'industrial grade' PCI 'hardware' modems). > Many older *ISA* modems were 'hardware' modems and were meant for old > i586 and i486 systems that lacked the CPU cycles to handle a > controllerless modem (winmodem). And ISA slots are pretty much > non-existent on modern motherboards.I have a couple of 'real hardware' PCI modems, neither of which were very expensive. One is an ActionTec, and I bought it new-old-stock for $15. The other is by Digitan, a DS560-558 that I got with a Sun Ultra 10 workstation. Both are Lucent Venus chipsets and are full hardware controller PCI modems. I have a third one here somewhere that is a more expensive one, a Multitech, I think, but I haven't been able to lay hold on it. There is a Multitech on eBay right now for $19.99; a real deal for an industrial-grade modem. For more information about modem chipsets, see http://www.modemsite.com/56k/chipset.asp and http://techpatterns.com/forums/about483.html