[CentOS] finding the right serial port, enabling & configuring it [was: Re: fax software]

[Les Mikesell]

On 3/29/2011 10:35 AM, ken wrote:
>
> I've got a couple dozen other things I need to do... and the person who
> was going to fax me something is scanning the doc and attaching it to an
> email, so I don't need the fax anymore.  So I'm bagging this project for
> now.  Down the road, however, I want to set up an answering machine app
> on this same machine, so I'll likely come back to all this.

I'd sign up for a free google voice account (if you are in the US 
anyway) instead of fighting with a modem to make an answering machine, 
especially a modem without a driver...  Unfortunately GV doesn't do 
faxes, but there are other services that will.

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   Les Mikesell
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