FreeBSD Fax Server?

2003-09-30 Thread rtjohan
Has anyone used freebsd to setup a fax server? Looking at Hylafax (http://www.hylafax.org) . Any others worth looking at? Which fax modem cards are supported by freebsd? Will be using FreeBSD 5.1 release. Thanks for any tips, Richard ___

Re: FreeBSD Fax Server?

2003-09-30 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Has anyone used freebsd to setup a fax server? > >Looking at Hylafax (http://www.hylafax.org) >. Any others worth looking at? We've used HylaFAX since it was called flexfax (and hosted the HylaFAX mailing

Re: FreeBSD Fax Server?

2003-09-30 Thread Murray Taylor
USB modems can also be used for fax SENDERS .. but may not be totally kosher in the receive mode. I have tried a Netcomm Roadster II 56 USB modem, for faxing outbound it works a-ok, havent tried inbound yet, but for other apps like mpd in answer mode it plays silly buggers.. and essentially lo

Re: FreeBSD Fax Server?

2003-10-01 Thread C. Ulrich
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 21:15, Bill Campbell wrote: > IMHO internal modems are to be avoided at all costs. Generally, I used to concur with this, but a couple years ago I bought a USR PCI internal _hardware_ modem and it's worked great with every OS I threw at it. They're pretty much all I recommend

Re: FreeBSD Fax Server?

2003-10-01 Thread rtjohan
Which model of US Robotics did you get? I take it that it should work with FreeBSD Rel 5.1? C. Ulrich wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 21:15, Bill Campbell wrote: IMHO internal modems are to be avoided at all costs. Generally, I used to concur with this, but a couple years ago I bought a USR P

Re: FreeBSD Fax Server?

2003-10-01 Thread Ekrem
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 03:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which model of US Robotics did you get? > I take it that it should work with FreeBSD Rel 5.1? > > C. Ulrich wrote: > > >On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 21:15, Bill Campbell wrote: > > > > > >>IMHO internal modems are to be avoided at all costs. > >>

Re: FreeBSD Fax Server?

2003-10-01 Thread C. Ulrich
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which model of US Robotics did you get? The manual only identifies it as a 56k PCI hardware modem. I originally picked it up because "hardware" seemed to be emphasized on the package plus it said Linux was supported. The modem identifies its