On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:10:18PM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > What do people use? Is there a source of fax modems that work with > Hylafax in Israel? > > I dug up an old USR 56k/Fax modem and got Hylafax working. I have one > problem with it. > The modem does not have "adaptive answer". This is a feature where when > someone answers > the phone, the modem silently listens for a CNG (I am fax calling you) > tone. Our old fax machine > did that.
What do you mean? You only get this tone from the remote fax after answering the line. You want to connect this fax along-side a phone and have the fax ignore non-fax calls? > > Without it if you use your phone line for voice too, you have to hang up "you" == the human with the phone. But the fax will have to answer any call (potentially after a pre-set number of rings), right? > and hope the > calling fax machine retries the connection. With it, the fax machine > answers and > you hang up. > > It's definitely a hardware problem, Hylafax will support it if the modem > does, and this one > does not. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
