I personally skipped this all and went with hylafax about 6 years ago now. Still have a solution in place that gets 2,000 pages a week
Rock solid to say the least. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 22, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Reza - Voipernetics <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thank you for your kind words Claude. > I assure you, my command in the English language is far from perfect. > Probably command in the Linux environment, slightly better :). > > Cheers! > > -- > FOUNDER & SR. TELECOM ANALYST > VOIPERNETICS COMMUNICATIONS > TEL: 647-847-2287 x2016 > > Claude Tambu wrote the following on 4/22/2014 8:50 PM: >> Reza, >> >> I have been a quiet member of the usr group since the days of asterisk@home >> and am always amazed with your command of the English language :) specially >> coming from a seasoned IT guy :) . You are from a rare bread. >> >> Nonetheless, thanks for sharing the solution: I had that issue myself but >> never bother‎ed investing too much time into since my fax line wasn't as >> critical as I sometimes made to look. >> >> Thanks and have a wonderful one! >> >> Warmest Regards, >> >> /Claude >> Original Message >> From: Reza - Voipernetics >> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 20:12 >> To: Asterisk Users Group >> Subject: [on-asterisk] [RESOLVED] Re: Asterisk 1.8 Resident Fax ReceiveFAX() >> >> >> /*Gentlemen:*/ >> >> A special thanks to *Matthew Gamble* for heading me towards the right >> direction. >> With zero results from Google (soon to be cached hopefully), here is a >> solution back to the community., >> >> Long story short, the server where Asterisk was being upgraded from 1.6 >> to 1.8 is the same physical server. >> Previous versions appear to come with ReceveFAX (generic/opensource) >> ready out of the box. >> Leaving philosophical reasons (can of worms) why this is not supported >> in 1.8 and above is a different story. >> >> Out of the box, v1.8 does not have fax support unless you purchase the >> license. >> Work around is quite simple. >> >> Ensure you have spandsp compiled and installed. >> In Ubuntu its: apt-get install libspandsp-dev >> >> Once done: >> >> * do a make clean in your asterisk source repository >> * do a menuconfig (make menuconfig) >> * under Asterisk Module and Build options scroll down to " res_fax " >> * - Note that the above cannot proceed if you have not compiled and >> installed spandsp >> * further scroll down and enable " res_fax_spandsp " >> * save, quit and compile Asterisk. >> >> I regret not using spandsp in the past. >> It seems to have a lot more debugging and miscellaneous options and >> appears to be a whole lot more reliable. >> >> Leaving philosophies and theoretical concepts for a different thread, >> would appreciate feedback from any of you who used SPANDSP in the past >> to manage faxes. >> >> Thank you, >> Reza. >> >> -- >> FOUNDER & SR. TELECOM ANALYST >> VOIPERNETICS COMMUNICATIONS >> TEL: 647-847-2287 x2016 >> >> Reza - Voipernetics wrote the following on 4/22/2014 7:07 PM: >>> /*Gentlemen:*/ >>> >>> We had been running a simple fax server (fax receiver) with the basic >>> standard ReceiveFAX command in asterisk for the longest time. >>> Recently we upgraded the fax server to Asterisk 1.8 LTS 1.8.26.1 >>> >>> Following standard setup - no commercial or pirate license, but plain >>> vanilla ReceiveFax(), we get the following error: >>> ERROR[11386]: res_fax.c:784 fax_session_reserve: Could not locate a >>> FAX technology module with capabilities (RECEIVE) >>> ERROR[11386]: res_fax.c:1726 receivefax_exec: Unable to reserve FAX >>> session. >>> >>> Suggestions as to what we may be missing here? >>> Is gneric ReceiveFAX() dropped and we are being pushed to purchase a >>> license? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Reza. >>> -- >>> FOUNDER & SR. TELECOM ANALYST >>> VOIPERNETICS COMMUNICATIONS >>> TEL: 647-847-2287 x2016 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
