On Sunday 24 November 2002 01:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 3:38 am, Brian Parish wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 09:42, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 5:35 pm, Marcia wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > > > > > I would love to be able to fax from Linux on my desktop. I have LM 9. > > > > I am connected to the net with cable and I know that I would have to > > > > hook up the phone line with the modem in order to fax. The modem I > > > > have is supposedly supported by Linux or at least is a linmodem. How > > > > would I set this up so that I can fax plus still use my cable modem? > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > > > > > Hello Marcia - > > > > > > The issue of winmodems is something I don't know much about. I think > > > the Lucent chip modems are among the ones that can be persuaded to > > > work, but someone who knows more than I do will advise you on that > > > part. > > > > > > For the Mandrake setup, your situation is a little different from mine, > > > where I have a connection over ethernet, then a modem, but this is what > > > I suggest you do: > > > > > > Go to Mandrake Control Centre and let Mandrake detect your connections. > > > It should detect your modem and offer to set it up. If it does, let > > > it. It will make all the connection settings you need. I presume that > > > this will leave you with two profiles then, and you will have to switch > > > when you want to fax. > > > > > > I could be way off beam, since you have, in effect, two modems, but > > > that's how I would tackle it. > > > > > > Anne > > > > I suspect that this might just confuse things. You shouldn't need to > > configure a connection using the modem to allow it to be for faxing. > > Whatever fax software you are using will need to be pointed at the port > > to which the modem is connected. That's about it. > > > > In fact, I would suggest that you specifically tell drakconnect NOT to > > configure the modem if you are running it for some other reason, as it's > > likely screw up network settings. > > > > HTH > > Brian > > Sorry - I thought we were talking about a separate modem, not one already > in use. If it is the latter Brian is correct, nothing more needs to be > done. > > If you install efax (and it may well be already installed) then KWord will > already be able to 'print to fax'. If you use this, be aware that it does > not like spaces in telephone numbers. Failure to send a fax will result in > a log file being written to your home directory. It is likely to point to > permission problems. Once that's solved all should be well. > > Anne
Dear Anne, You were not mistaken. I do have 2 modems. One is a cable modem for my cable network and the other is a Lucent 56K phone,fax,voice modem. That is why I am wondering if there is a special way to do this so that I can switch to the phone modem and fax something without messing up my cable internet settings. Any ideas? Thanks for the help about this everyone. Sincerely, Marcia
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