Thanks to advice here, and someone with a surplus modem who generously gave it up to me* I am now faxing. Once I had a modem that Ubuntu could actually talk to the process was fairly easy and direct. There was some comment in the set up lists about my modem and "bit reversing" which motivated me to send a test fax to my brother's shop -- but it worked, so all is well.
You may hear from me again on this score -- I'd like to be able to set things up so that there's a fax server that we can all use as a regular old printer, but (a) I don't know how well Ubuntu supports faxing across the network, and (b) it'd mostly be to support my wife's Windows Vista machine, which can only see my Ubuntu machine off and on. So I may do this, or I may just make her come downstairs to my machine when she wants to fax something. * This is a skill I really ought to learn -- I'm so much of a pack rat that I avoid garage sales because I snap up _other_ people's junk to jealously guard until the end of my days. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
