At Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:53:50 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 03/28/2011 05:59 AM Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
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
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I remember both of these packages from years ago-- the last time I set up a fax. At that time I bought an internal modem-- not a Winmodem, one with jumpers on it to set the com port and I believe the interrupt also. Now, however, I'm working on a laptop with a serial chip on the mainboard and it's a different story.
Is this an RS232 port connected to an external modem or is it some sort of internal modem?
I've been reading the Serial-HOWTO, but it's a huge doc and I hope I don't need to read this entire monograph to get the serial port set up for the modem so that the fax software can use it.
I've run minicom to see if I can dial out with it-- to test if I have the modem's serial port enabled and configured properly. So far, no joy. Anyone have tips to set up the modem so that efax or (more likely) hylafax can use it?
Almost all *internal* modems (esp. on laptops) are Winmodems and are thus pretty close to useless under Linux. It might be easier / cheaper / less agravating to just go down to Best Buy and buy a Creative Blaster analog RS232 serial modem. Something like $50US. Note: most newer laptops don't have an external RS232 connection, so you will need to get a USB=>RS232 adapter, most of which work out-of-the-box under Linux. (Don't get a USB connected analog modem -- most of these are Winmodems or something equally odd.)
Otherwise, what does:
/bin/setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
display?
(You might need to be root to do this:
sudo /bin/setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
)
For example my IBM Thinkpad X31 gives this:
gollum.deepsoft.com% sudo /bin/setserial -g /dev/ttyS* /dev/ttyS0, UART: undefined, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 /dev/ttyS1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3 /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
I think /dev/ttyS0 is the IR port, which I don't use. The Winmodem does not show up as a /dev/ttyS* port, since it is not really a serial port at all.
Much appreciated.
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