Subject: Re: using ISDN adapter for FAX
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Frank Luedke <netbsd@desiato.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/22/2002 19:36:21
Am Mon, 2002-07-22 um 12.22 schrieb Wojciech Puchar:
> is it possible to answer connections coming from classic FAX/modem?
>
> is special hardware needed (ISDN adapter with signal processor) or
> software emulation exist?
I don't know how to set this up on NetBSD, but the biggest
problem is that you must configure to use your digital (ISDN)
card/modem to work with analogue signals. With Linux and Hylafax
it's officially *not* possible to get this to work, because you
need a CAPI to get this to work, because -- The only company supporting
CAPIs for Linux is AVM. You can get a special CAPI support for
your AVM card, with that you can get it to run on Linux.
If you know C you could maybe port the Linux Capi for the AVM cards
to NetBSD :) You can download the sources (and SuSE binaries) for
the AVM-Capi support at their ftp-server ftp.avm.de.
The AVM-Capi support works only with Hylafax ! If you have an active
ISDN card (like the AVM A1), it should be very easy to set this up,
as the active cards do most of the Capi stuff by their own. But they
are very expensive.
Hope this helps a bit :)
-fl