Bill,
"Is this part of the problem?"
I probably did not correctly follow the discussion with you because I
still do not know what "the problem" is.
What I can swear is that the error message which you report (see below)
has nothing to do neither with the hardware of the modem nor with its
software (driver).
FAXes are sent as TIFF files. GhostScript knows how to make a TIFF file
out of a PostScript file.
Linux (Unix) commands come with a manual to use them.
The word manual starts with man. To help you use efax , type man efax
You will find the following in the help text
Ghostscript’s tiffg3 driver can generate fax files in TIFF-G3
format
from postscript files. For example, the command:
gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=letter.%03d
letter.ps </dev/null will convert the Postscript file
letter.ps into high-resolution (vr=1) G3 fax image files
letter.001, letter.002, ...
The error which you see is produced by that command. You did not type
it, but the way you operated efax generated this command, while the file
which you try to send is not a PostScript file, as the error message says:
"Not valid postscript file".
What should you do then to send your FAX: well, the universal advice
READ THE MANUAL FIRST also applies for FAXing.
If you cannot find how to send your FAX by reading man efax , then
please send me the test file which you are trying to send and the
complete efax command which you typed to try to send but obtained
the error message
instead.
Jacques
A4Skyhawk wrote:
Marvin:
I have downloaded efax and efax-gtk. When I send a fax w/ efax, I get
the following --
GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Not valid postscript file
Is this part of the problem?
TIA,
Bill Lowther
Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
RE: if the specific Agere 620 driver supports FAXing
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From
http://www.lsi.com/networking_home/networking_products/modem_chip_sets/pc_modems/sv92pp/index.html?locale=EN&remote=1
V.92 soft modem chip set solution is for the PCI applications. The LSI
SV92PP chip set is a two-chip solution consisting of an LSI SV92PP PCI
interface and a CSP1040 silicon DAA. It supports V.92/V.90/V.34 data
and FAX rates up to 14.4 kbits/s. The SV92PP is an interface device
with the memory required for receiving, transmitting, and buffering
data sent between the host system (soft modem stack) and the DAA or
line codec.
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My expectation is that this well also be true for Linux.
MarvS
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Jacques Goldberg
<Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
MARV PLEASE: does Bill's Agere 5620 modem support faxing?
Bill:
It is becoming possible although still expensive to use services over
your
DSL link such as outlined in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_fax
At the same time, it is very simple to FAX out from your computer using
an
analog modem such as your Agere modem with FAX software such as efax
which
you can download from many places such as
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/intel/Philippe.Vouters/efax.zip
In such a scheme there is absolutely NO interaction between your Internet
connection via DSL and EFAXing with the Agere modem.
The only caveat is that I do not know if the specific Agere 620 driver
supports FAXing.
Marv will tell you.
My own way to do what you wish to is:
-Internet via DSL
-FAX out using the FAX function of my C7183 All-in-one HP printer.
-Phone company FAX phone box which forwards incominf FAXes to my computer
embedded in a mail message.
Jacques
Jacques
A4Skyhawk wrote:
Jacques:
I'm sorry for the confusion - I am not experienced w/ the workings
of
a
fax program from the computer. So, I am probably not explaing myself
too
well. I'll start from the beginning -
My previous computer had Win XP, a USR 5660A modem for faxing, and a
BSRP
"PhoneTools" program. My ISP was Verizon, via DSL (not dial-up). I
don't
remember how PhoneTools was setup for faxing. I recently upgraded to
this
computer - an eMachine w/ Vista Home Basic, which does not support
faxing.
Verizon is still the ISP, via DSL, and I would like to be able to fax
from
the computer as I did before. The modem that came w/ Vista, as shown in
the
ModemData report, is the Agere Systems Device 0620.
How do I fax from this computer w/ this equipment?
Bill
Jacques Goldberg wrote:
A4Skyhawk wrote:
Jacques:
I have DSL, so I don't need to dial a number to get to the ISP for an
internet connection. Do I need to create another (dial-up) connection
for
fax service?
Bill
Sorry Bill but this time I am lost.
If you have DSL, what would you need another connection for?
What would you need wvdial for if you do not need an Analog Modem, not
a
DSL, Internet connection?
Or is it perhaps that you want:
a- your DSL connection to connect to the Internet for mail, surfing,
etc... , and
b-the ability to use a FAX machine using an other modem, of type Analog
(dial up) and not DSL?
If this is indeed what you want, an Internet (wvdial) connection using
an
analog (dialup) modem is definitely hopeless to send FAXes !
Please explain what you want to do and what is then the problem.
Jacques
