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.
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?
Much appreciated.