On Sun, 13 May 2012 15:06:35 +0200, Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 05:56:49PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> I am considering in adding a couple of PCI based Eicon Diva 2.02 >> "passive" cards on a system running hylafax server. The fax server is >> now using a couple of external RS-232 modems that work like a charm but >> as I have a pair of unused ISDN cards I'm consider in adding them to >> the current setup to enhance the installation. > > Please ask yourself which aspect of your installation you expect to > improve by doing this. Fax with passive ISDN cards will be harder to set > up than with analog modems.
Yes, I do know very well ;-( We're a long time ISDN users (we've had digital phone lines since ~12 years ago) and know very well the problems they can have, mainly when it comes to the hardware facilities and faxing. The fact is that we still maintain a bunch of digital subscriber lines in the office to which I have connected the analog modems (we do "fax" a lot here) but I have experienced isolated problems when dialing to another ISDN lines over an analog line/device, that is, the call (even a telephone call) cannot be placed and our carrier, of course, does not know a thing about where the problem can be :-) The above means that -in such specific cases- faxing from analog modems fails (eventhough the modems are connected to an ISDN line!) and I think that faxing over an ISDN device could work. So as I always like to have several options from where to choose, I thought in adding the possibility of using this card to provide digital faxing so I can handle almost any unexpected situation. And in the event the ISDN card works fine with HylaFAX and has no problem at all, I can make it the default device to manage the standard input/output fax queue and keep the external RS-323 modems as a fallback device. >> But now I see that HiSax has been deprecated in favor of mISDN and I >> wonder what's the current status of this driver in Debian, what kind of >> devices are supported and what are your average experience in using >> ISDN passive cards with Hylafax. > > Check out this announcement: > http://www.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2012-January/005580.html > You need very recent sofware to use it, but this seems to be the way > forward. Hmmm, thanks. It was a very recent post (from this same year!) so yes, it seems that faxing (capi) using the new driver (misdn) is still in a beta stage. I'll have to consider that. > You may want to ask on this mailing list yourself. Despite its name, it > mostly deals with misdn nowadays. > https://www.isdn4linux.de/mailman/listinfo/isdn4linux (you have to > subscribe to be able to post) Okay, I will for sure take a look at the mailing list archives to see what's the status of the project and have a better understanding of the current supported features. > The documentation on www.misdn.org is a bit outdated, but may still be > partially helpful. Look for misdn v2, and ignore misdn v1. > > Sorry, I cannot help you with first-hand experience concerning fax > support. Thanks for the input :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jooku2$dun$1...@dough.gmane.org
