On Wednesday 07 December 2005 6:33 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I have two kinds of questions about how to send faxes under SuSE Linux 10.0.
First, there seem to be two competing and incompatible packages: sendfax and hylafax. How should one choose between them?
hylafax all the way. Simple and powerful enough for a single user all the way to thousands of users and lots of modems on a large LAN. Very mature and very well debugged.
Second, I'm having some difficulty locating appropriate hardware. The very common PCTel winmodems aren't supported under the 2.6 kernel. External modems avoid the driver problems but are a pain to deal with. Does anyone have some reasonably-priced PCI modems to recommend? I need the modem only for faxing, since I have cable Internet service.
Paul
External modem if this is a server or desktop style machine. Easily replaced if it dies and easier to troubleshoot during installation since you don't have to open the machine. If you go PCI just make sure its not a winmodem and you should be good to go. I am curious if anyone responds with known working brands and models. Stan