Re: Faxing

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 14:26 -0700, Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote:
>
>>(Not to suport MS)
>>Microsoft had a free Fax App on their web site a while back. In fasct it came
>>bundled with Win2K, Win XP, Outlook 2000, and I think Office 2k Pro... So if
>>you have a win OS and time to look, you can proably still find the app on the
>>MS site and use it to test your modem conection.
>>
>>Once you know it is good with a Win product then we can see if it works under
>>*nix... I should mention that I had a cheep 33.6 modem that faxed under
>>windows but not under RedHat... But I always thought it was an experance
>>problem on my part...
>
> ----
> sometimes the efforts don't provide clarity.
>
> modems like all hardware I guess have condensed everything down to a
> single chip or a few chips and they use software control of data entry
> points and other functions which has been of benefit to the Windows OS
> because it allows them more functionality of the very few hardware IRQ's
>
> So we have an explosion of 'software' driven modems which are very
> cheap. These are typically referred to as Win modems. They provide
> drivers for the Microsoft OS types in order to sell them. They haven't
> necessarily provided 'drivers' for Linux because they haven't identified
> the Linux market as having value to them and they are probably less than
> eager to release their drivers in 'open source'.
>
> So that leaves only 2 real options...
>
> - buy a real hardware modem, internal or external that actually uses an
> IRQ or
> - search for information regarding your specific chipset in your 'win
> modem' on the website - something like lin-modem.org and do whatever is
> necessary to make it work. This can be a hassle
>
> Of further note - Apple, not one to miss an opportunity to cheapen
> things up has gone to a new version of the Motorola SM56 chipsets in the
> modems on new G5's and they suck big time. Try receiving a 10 page fax
> on one...they will fail 80% of the time. Whether we used Apple's built-
> in mimimalist fax software, Page Sender or Fax STF Pro was immaterial.
> Smith-Micro swears that their new version of Fax STF Pro fixes this
> issue (which is clearly an Apple problem) but it only fractionally
> reduced the percentage of errors. Finally ended up going to a Zoom USB
> external modem to solve problem.
>
> One last note - some of these modems work poorly in Windows too.
>
> Craig
>

Is there a suitable external modem for Mac then?


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