On 2022-03-10 15:30, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I'm looking to setup my computer for faxes sending and receiving. I'm
> looking at using the U.S. robotics fax modem but unsure if the two fax
> software made for Linux will support it as I would be using a USB
> adapter for serial port connection to the fax modem.
I think most USB to 9-pin converters work pretty well these days. They
should show up as /dev/ttyUSB0 . efax and efax-gtk (or hylafax) should
both work with whatever device node it shows up as.
> I once used such a modem with Linux a couple of decades ago.
> But I used a script for the fax modem to make the
> connection. So [will it] run with Linux[?]
Highly probable if the thing has a 9-pin serial port. ISTR hylafax was
a thing in 1998, so it's not like this hasn't been a solved problem for
a while. The main question I have is: Why is anyone faxing anything?
It's probably faster to take a picture of 1 page and mail it with a cell
phone now than it is to scan 1 page, encode it as G3, convert it to
analog, transmit it, and reverse all that to print it out at the
destination.
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