On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:17:13AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I have a 200 MHz Pentium and a spare 350 Mz Pentium-II. I would like > to use one or the other with a laser printer and an external US > Robotics fax modem as a dedicated fax machine, primarily for incoming > faxes with a volume averaging about a hundred pages a day. > > The prime software candidates in the Debian repository appear to be > the mgetty suite and the hylafax suite. > > It would be nice to use packages which are easy to configure, but of > greater importance is a system which is robust and unlikely to give > trouble when running unattended 24/7.
I did this. I used mgetty+sendfax. I was able to use the distinctive ring function of the modem so that it automatically answered incoming fax calls. I received email when there were incoming faxes so I could turn on the printer and run printfaxs. I suppose if your printer is always on that you could automate this. I was running Woody at the time. I would assume that now its far easier to configure. However there will be several interrelated config files. init has to run mgetty on the modem so you have to edit /etc/inittab, mgetty itself needs configuring both for incoming and outgoing faxes. Editing the files is quick. Reading the documentation takes a while. Good luck. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
