connexant fax linmodem

[marafa]

hi

i got the modem portion of my conexant linmodem working (driver from http://mbsi.ca)

 

but when i check for the fax it tells me i have a class 0 and the box says its a class 2.

 

i want to get my fax working .. pls. help

[DragonMage]

I am sorry to be a bearer of bad news, but reading the limitation link from the page where you got the driver from, the fax support is either very preliminary or doesn't work at all depending on the chipset. Anyway, the term linmodem means to describe a winmodem that can be used with Linux with a commercial or open-source driver. So the hardware is still winmodem, just work (somewhat) in linux.

 

Basically, you have two choices, either get a real hardware modem (preferably a serial external since almost all serial external modem are real hardware modem) to get fax support or to wait until the fax feature is implemented fully in the drivers of your linmodem. Of course, you can always dual boot to windows if you just need the fax feature working.

[bvc]

I have the Conexant Soft 56k HSF. There's a pdf included in the driver.rpm I think in the docs section that includes the 'AT' commands for the linux version of the driver. If fax commands are available you'll have to go to the kfax or whatever programs config file and give it the appropriate commands, if not available in gui. Not fun, and time consuming. I was unable to get the USRoboticsPCI5610B to work in fax mode (only tried a short while) and its driver is included in the kernel. It died on me so I took it back.