[comp.dcom.fax] Unix drivers for fax boards

jst@cca.ucsf.edu (Joe Stong) (01/13/91)

In article <37895@cup.portal.com> Paul_Steven_Mahler@cup.portal.com writes:
>Does anyone know where to get a device driver for unix
>for a fax modem that fits in an a/t style bus?  Or
>a sun bus? Or any other bus???

How about some nice external fax modems, that run over nice standard
serial lines, that aren't so entirely incompatible with each different
type of computer that you might want to plug it in to.  Then you
don't need a kernel device driver, just use the tty driver and some
user software.

I understand that Fujitsu makes an external FaxModem, is it the DeX?  Was
it Driver Design Labs in British Columbia that had the software for it?
I'm sure there are others.

	Joe Stong   jst@cca.ucsf.edu

DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) (01/14/91)

Get a JTFAX board, you dont need a device driver because all its
registers are mapped into the memory segment between 640K and 1MB.
You can open /dev/mem to control it. And Hayes provides the tech doc
on the modem.

eli@pws.bull.com (Steve Elias) (01/14/91)

In article <37994@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
>Get a JTFAX board, 

also consider a Brooktrout TR112 (2 fax channels, with or without DID),
or a TR111 (1 channel, no DID).

>you dont need a device driver because all its
>registers are mapped into the memory segment between 640K and 1MB.

imho, this fact does not obviate the need for a device driver.  
the control code for the memory mapped area is a device driver!

>You can open /dev/mem to control it. And Hayes provides the tech doc
>on the modem.

Brooktrout provides unix fax drivers for *FREE*.  (not with source.)
and they also provide source to fax "daemons" which talk to 
the driver.  and they also provide tech docs on their boards.

(this posting made in the interests of "equal time" & competition.)
((i usually only respond via email to recommend a vendor, but since
  Bruce posted his recommendation...  :) :)

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