win modems are (were) PCI hardware.
Standalone modems are not winmodems.
There is a USB modem standard.
They dont include linux compatability in their specs because as far as they are
concerned no one uses linux.
Geoff
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel
On 08/01/2021 10:39, Omer Zak wrote:
I am one of the holdouts who still use FAX technology.
My printer was of the type which combines printing + scanning + FAX. A
week ago it died, and I looked for a new printer with the same
combination of features.
Turned out
Around 2002 when I first got a cable modem, I set up a pentium 133 running
linux as a mail server, dns server, dhcp server, etc for my local network.
I attached a modem to it and set up a hylafax server.
I just looked at the current system that runs the same things, and I dont think
I have a
At my work place there is a fax server which was installed over 10 years
ago
based on HylaFax and uses an old US Robotics 56K modem.
(which has the old 25 pin header connected via adapter to the server)
We use is only for receiving fax (local Fax2Mail service)
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Rabin
On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at
