On Fri 20 Jul 2007 13:56:47 NZST +1200, Andrew Errington wrote: > For the archives (and I suppose I should put this on the Wiki), I just sent > a fax with KdePrintfax. Here are the details:
Faxing is just about the only reason I got myself another modem (small bucks on trademe, the old one is an ISA card). I use hylafax though, and after running faxsetup it does need a little bit of tweaking for the modem, like how the modem counts the rings. This is what used to be easy: after N rings, the modem answers as fax machine. Also, the modem is able to log the caller ID to syslog, if one fiddles the hylafax modem initialisation string to the modem's satisfaction (several hours of work). A script which scans through syslog emails me calls received, together with the name of the caller from a simple manually maintained lookup table. Not only geeky, it's also useful ;) Fax receiving however doesn't do much got with voice messaging (there can be only one auto-answer device). The solution is to get distinctive ring, which gives a second phone number for the same(!) phone line, and which produces a different ring tone. The modem is able to detect this, and reports the different ring types (supposedly). Several hours to get this to work. Trouble is, the modem locks up on the listening part on a regular basis. Haven't yet found out what causes the lockup, and it can only be cleared by power-cycling the modem. ATZ only loads a pre-stored configuration set, but doesn't do any sort of reset. The modem remains otherwise functional - I can talk to it with a terminal program without trouble. It just doesn't report incoming calls any more. I'm very keen on more ideas here. E.g. is there a proper reset AT command? Can't see any in the AT command reference. Modem is a D-Link DFM 560E. All of this uses faxgetty of the hylafax package for receiving, and a hylafax fax daemon for sending. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
