At Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:53:50 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- 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