On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:58:07AM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: <snippy> > It also isn't visible to the modem software driver disk that came with > the machine (grr).
I'd be surprised if it were. USB, serial and parallel passthrough is possible through virtual-hardware magick, but generic PCI passthough is quite difficult. > Argh. Maybe I just need to go buy a real modem; I've been trying to > avoid that, as it (a) costs money, and (b) seems like getting one that > supports faxing will be a pain. Not so hard at FreeGeek (or maybe SurplusGizmos), and you might be able to make your softmodem work anyway - FAX is actually a bit easier in software than, say, 56k data. See about one page down on: http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/install.php I'd say "bring it to Linux Clinic" but the last one wasn't exactly a series of rousing successes. :) Maybe it was the lack of Pinguinos, Aaron _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
