At Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:35:49 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > On 03/28/2011 04:22 PM Robert Heller wrote: > > 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? > > Internal... on a laptop... so a winmodem. :( > > > > > >> 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.) > > Yeah, I think you're right about the Winmodem. "setserial -g > /dev/ttyS*" showed just two recognized serial ports. Rebooting and > checking the BIOS told me that the second one was for the IR (InfraRed) > device. This laptop does have a regular serial port on it (I insisted > on it when I was shopping). I also have a PCMCIA slot and an old modem > card from a previous laptop, so that might be a better option than > wrestling with a winmodem. I don't know yet.... The old PCMCIA modem card might not be a fax modem. If the laptop does have a "good old" DB-9 serial port connector, then going to Best Buy (or CompUSA, etc.) and getting something like a Creative Blaster analog RS232 serial modem might be also quite easy and painless. > > > > > > Otherwise, what does: > > > > /bin/setserial -g /dev/ttyS* > > > > display? > > > > (You might need to be root to do this: > > > > sudo /bin/setserial -g /dev/ttyS* > > Did this (see above) and the "serial port" (or whatever) which the modem > is supposed to be connected to doesn't even show up. From what I've > gathered from the Serial-HOWTO, the modem (again, winmodem) is a PnP > ("plug-n-play")... I'm guessing this thing (from "scanpci -v"): > > pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x1f function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x24cc > Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge > STATUS 0x0280 COMMAND 0x010f > CLASS 0x06 0x01 0x00 REVISION 0x01 > BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x80 LATENCY 0x00 CACHE 0x00 > BYTE_0 0x01 BYTE_1 0x08 BYTE_2 0x00 BYTE_3 0x00 > > I've hunted around for a driver for this, got some indication that there > might be one, but I haven't found it yet. > > > > > > ) > > > > 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. > > I got exactly the same output. Rebooting and going into the BIOS, I > found that my IR card was bound to COM2 (ttyS1) and so moved it to COM4, > thinking maybe that would uncover the modem's port... but no. > > 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. So in the > meantime, if anyone has any info on the driver which is going to light > up this winmodem, give me a little shout. > > Thanks much to everyone who replied... all good tips... 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