OK, so it doesn't dial.
Gettin' it to dial is of primary importance when faxing. Having an
ethernet or DSL setup will have no impact on whether your phone modem is
working or not.
Is your phone modem plugged into a phone line? If so, does the phone
line return a dial tone? If the answer to these two questions is "yes,"
a good next step may be to go into KPPP Internet Dialer under the
Network or Internet section of your KDE menu. Select configure, then
modem, then query modem. The results of this should show whether your
modem is configured and talking to phone lines, or if work is needed
there first. If it is working, you may wish to click on the "device" tab
in KPPP and note what device the modem is under.
I am running Simply Mepis, and my laptop modem "just worked" after
installation, despite the fact that it is a winmodem. Hopefully you will
have the same good fortune.
If your modem is working under KPPP, the next step, I think, is to check
and make sure you have the same modem settings loaded under KPrintFax.
If not, it may be a matter of getting a symlink set up for your modem,
or we may have do do the windmodem driver dance.
Regards,
Lee
ec wrote:
>Finding packages is a mystry to me. I think that
>Simply Mepis is debian based...as I understand it. I
>am a noobie as far as anything like that.
>
>I did 'touch' sendfax for efax (think that is the one
>that it said it was 'missing') and it ran a bit
>farther. In fact it said 'done' or something like that
>but NEVER dialed.
>
>Now what? I did/do have the ethernet/dsl/dchp hooked
>up, but it didn't dial the 56K modem.
>
>I previously have used MightyFax in windows, but this
>hard drive/machine doesn't have that.
>
>IF push comes to shove, I can d/l mightyfax to the w98
>machine (and pay the $20 for it) that the scanner is
>hooked up to since Sane is supposed to work with this
>scanner but doesn't (another problem, let's not go
>there yet). Or, heaven help, setup dual boot on the
>machine and run the ancient version of MF that is on
>the harddrive that is sitting disconnected as an
>emergency backup when that box was the only box.
>
>Dang state/feds require 'services' for my disabled
>room mate (cancer and spinal problem from 22 years
>ago) or loose his Long Term Care! So I get a whopping
>2 hrs @ 1
>$12 to take care of him...starting possibly next week.
>If it was left up to me, stuff it pay wise...more
>hassle than worth it. So, running down and paying to
>fax it costs toooooo much. Oh, the 'costs' for the
>'training/cpr/tb skin test/physical/etc will eat up
>the first couple months of pay anyway.
>
>What is that? Ah, Catch 22??
>
>Now the dang 'pukers' are fighting me...'frustration
>city here I come'.
>
>Geech!
>
>--- Bill Warner <wwarner42@cox.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Looks to me like you are missing some kind of fax
>>software. You need to
>>make sure you have the packages that
>>provide /usr/bin/faxspool /usr/bin/sendfax and
>>/usr/bin/fax in order for
>>the other tools to work.
>>
>>This will be dependent on your distribution and
>>method of install.
>>
>>-Bill W
>>
>>On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 23:09 -0800, ec wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I need to get a fax going. I can scan in files
>>>(admittedly using @98 as the os) or, er, floppy
>>>sneaker them to a file on this linux machine, but
>>>cannot get KdeprintFax to send them. It starts
>>>
>>>
>>then
>>
>>
>>>logs the following error when using mgetty fax
>>>
>>>
>>>Sending to fax using: /usr/bin/faxspool -F 'Ed
>>>Culbertson' -f '' -D '' '2960505'
>>>'/tmp/kde-ed/kdeprintfax_IPSJB9AD'
>>>/bin/sh: /usr/bin/faxspool: No such file or
>>>
>>>
>>directory
>>
>>
>>>And with hyla fax:
>>>
>>>
>>>Sending fax to recipient
>>>
>>>Sending to fax using: /usr/bin/sendfax -n -h
>>>'localhost' -l -x '' -c '' -f '' -d ''@'2960505'
>>>'/tmp/kde-ed/kdeprintfax_FiMcAdnI'
>>>/bin/sh: /usr/bin/sendfax: No such file or
>>>
>>>
>>directory
>>
>>
>>>Efax gives
>>>
>>>
>>>Sending fax to recipient
>>>
>>>Sending to fax using: /usr/bin/fax NAME='Ed
>>>Culbertson' DEV='modem' PAGE=letter
>>>FROM='480.949.5934' send -l '2960505'
>>>'/tmp/kde-ed/kdeprintfax_6JIv04xF'
>>>/bin/sh: /usr/bin/fax: No such file or directory
>>>
>>>Been trying to get to 'no dialtone' using kppp.
>>>
>>>
>>This
>>
>>
>>>was a good modem when I disconnected from dialup
>>>
>>>
>>last
>>
>>
>>>year. USR Courier external.
>>>
>>>Oh, well.
>>>
>>>
>>>This is an installed Simply Mepis attempting an
>>>external usr courier that up till about a year ago
>>>
>>>
>>was
>>
>>
>>>my dialup modem. I think it is still okay...got
>>>
>>>
>>dsl
>>
>>
>>>now.
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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