Hi, Jacques, thanks for your help.
Let's go step by step.
I just want to be able of sending and receiving fax with Efax. I
think
we
have to stop thinking about IP and Internet.
I just want to send and receive faxes as I did with the program
Cheyenne
Bitware (do you know it?). Nothing to do with internet. I don't need
to
use my modem to access internet. I access Internet through LAN.
You say:
Sending a FAX thus proceeds as follows:
1-the modem driver, if any needed other than the built in serial,
must
be
running.
How do I know if my modem or modem driver is running?
Please could you tell me some commands to execute in console
(terminal)
that gives me some results that I can send to you where you can
analyze
and tell me what is wrong?
When I try to send a fax with Efax nothing happens and the message
is:
Socket running on port 9900
efax-0.9a: 10:05:28 opened /dev/ttyS0
efax-0.9a: 10:05:34 sync: dropping DTR
efax-0.9a: 10:05:39 sync: sending escapes
efax-0.9a: 10:05:44 Error: sync: modem not responding
efax-0.9a: 10:05:44 failed page
/home/yefer/efax-gtk-server/efax-gtk-server-PaDeUB.001
efax-0.9a: 10:05:44 finished - no response from modem
I really appreciate your time
Thanks a lot
God bless you
Yefer
As far as I know. it is unfortunately not possible to send FAXes
through
an IP connexion without susbcribing to such a service - not cheap,
possibly worthy for a large enough business, but certainly not for a
casual user.
Sending a FAX thus proceeds as follows:
1-the modem driver, if any needed other than the built in serial,
must
be
running.
2-A string of characters (under an ad-hoc protocole) is sent to the
modem.
Even a simple cat < fax.txt > /dev/modem could do it under
the
condition that fax.txt would start with ATDT1234567 (a typical FAX
phone
number) and be followed by the protocole negotiating the connexion,
and
finally by the text to be sent before final disconnect.
3-There are utilities which do the job for you, such as simpler efax
or
more elaborated hylafax.
Bottom line: FAX must be sent by dialling the receiving FAX machine,
using
a fax application such as efax or hylafax, not by dialling any IP
provider
service.
No FAX can be sent through a modem in simultaneous use for an IP
connection.
Of course this does not apply if the machine has 2 modems, one for
IP,
one
for FAXing.
Jacques
Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
> Yefer,
> > I am not erudite in Faxing.
> The attached may be useful.
> It was written for a different modem, but much should be
transferable.
> > Jacques,
> I remember your dealing with a similar case. Is it possible
to
fax
> without going through an IP Login?
> > MarvS
> > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:42 PM, yefer barandica
<yeferbar@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Hi Marvs
>>
>> I don't need my modem to access internet. I need it to send
faxes
through
>> phone line.
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> --- El mié 4-jun-08, Marvin Stodolsky
<marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>>
>> De: Marvin Stodolsky <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Asunto: Re: Yefer Barandica López, Colombia kernel
2.6.24-17-generic
>> A: yeferbar@xxxxxxxxx
>> Fecha: miércoles, 4 junio, 2008, 6:38 pm
>>
>> yefer,
>>
>> Your situation is not clear to me.
>> The role of modem configuration files are to successively:
>> Dial an Internet Provider (IP) phone number
>> Login with a UserName and Password
>> Accept addresses of the IP's Domain Name Services
>> Start PPP services
>> After which you can browse and do other Internet Services.
>>
>> How do you plan to access the IP, without dialing his phone
number?
>>
>> If you have some internal/home IP, you still have to use
some
number
>> like 0 or perhaps 9, to open the modem to the active
circuit.
>>
>> MarvS
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:29 PM, yefer barandica
<yeferbar@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> ¿What if there is not a Internet service provider phone
number?
As I
>> already
>>> said there is not a number I or the system have to dial
to
navigate in
>>> Internet. Can I leave that space (phone) in blank, I
mean,
put
nothing
>>> there?
>>> Thanks again for your help
>>> Yefer
>>>
>>> --- El mié 4-jun-08, Marvin Stodolsky
<marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx>
>> escribió:
>>> De: Marvin Stodolsky <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Asunto: Re: Yefer Barandica López, Colombia kernel
2.6.24-17-generic
>>> A: yeferbar@xxxxxxxxx
>>> Fecha: miércoles, 4 junio, 2008, 6:44 am
>>>
>>> Yefer
>>>
>>> Edit the 3 lines of
>>> /etc/wvdial.conf
>>> beginning with ; , removin the ; < > symbols
>>> Use the internet provider phone number. Edit with:
>>> $ sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf
>>>
>>> Dialout is then done with:
>>> $ sudo wdial
>>> which accesses /etc/wvdial.conf
>>> in settting up the ppp0 channel for COMM
>>> Make sure you can do a simple dialout before trying fax.
>>>
>>> Shut down LAN function COMM
>>> $ sudo ifdown eth0
>>> before trying a dialout, or browser navigation will
fail,
because
ppp0
>>> will try and fail to use the LAN settings
>>>
>>> For efax, check with that List. Often these cheap
consumer
modems
are
>>> not reliabe with fax.
>>> You might have to buy a Controller Chipset modem for fax
services
if
>>> the agrmodem+agrrserial is not effective. I don't have
fax
expertise.
>>>
>>> MarvS
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:00 PM, yefer barandica
>> <yeferbar@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi Marvs, thanks a lot for your help and
instructions.
>>>> I have used
>>> the file you send me (agrsm_howto.txt) in my job of
trying
to
>>>> make my modem works.
>>>> Everything goes right but I have a doubt:
>>>> Do I definitively have to edit the file wvdial.conf?
I
mean, I
connect
>> to
>>>> internet through LAN and not through modem. I'm a
little
confuse.
>>> ¿What
>>>> "phone" is that file talking about? My phone number
or an
>>> internet provider
>>>> phone number? I need at this moment my modem to send
faxes and
not to
>>>> connect to internet. Is it the same with "login" and
>>> "password"? Is it
>>>> talking about things related with an internet
service
provider?
>>>> I apologize about my English and I hope you have
understand
me.
>>>> Thanks a lot again.
>>>> Yefer
>>>> By the way, the file agrsm_howto.txt says
>>>> This instruction set was provided by Hugo Canilli.
He
has
thus
had
>> success
>>>> with this AGRSM code requiring modem, under Linuxes:
Ubuntu
versions
>> 6.10,
>>> 7.04, 7.10 and slackware 12.0. Marv Stodolsky lightly
edited
the
text.
>>>> My Ubuntu is 8.04 - Hardy Heron, I downloaded one
day
before
the
>>> definitive
>>>> version was launched.
>>>>
>>>> 00) Be sure than kernel headers are installed. Under
Ubuntu,
>>>> they are provided by a package pair with name format
like
>>>> linux-headers-2.6.22-14
linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic
>>>> with 2.6.22-14-generic being the boot kernel version
>>>>
>>>> All the files headers I found in my sistem are
2.6.24....
>>>> But I have follow the instructions of the file and
everythng
goes
>> right.
>>>> Please help me cause I need to send fax with
eFax-gtk.
>>>>
>>>> --- El mar 3-jun-08, Marvin Stodolsky
>> <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> escribió:
>>>> De: Marvin Stodolsky
<marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Asunto: Re: Yefer Barandica López, Colombia kernel
2.6.24-17-generic
>>>> A: "yefer barandica"
>>> <yeferbar@xxxxxxxxx>, "Jacques
>>> Goldberg"
>>>> <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx>
>>>> Fecha: martes, 3 junio, 2008, 2:07 pm
>>>>
>>>> Yefer
>>>>
>>>> AGRSM - At
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/sv92/ ,
>>>> the agrsm-20080203.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> Under Linux unpack with:
>>>> $ tar zxf agr*.tar.gz
>>>> Read the files therein and the attached
>>>>
>>>> jacques
>>>> put the agrsm_howto.txt into the
>>>> folder
>>>>
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/sv92/
>>>>
>>>> MarvS
>>>>
>>>> MarvS
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:53 PM, yefer barandica
>> <yeferbar@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
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