[ale] new MFP Printer needed

[Michael Trausch]

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 14:37 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> fax-modems are _still_ produced! Externals are more expensive and have
> hardware modems while most internal ones have software DSP's
> (winmodems). The kernel knows how to use almost all that are still
> made.
> 
> You will also need software to control it all. The basic is
> mgetty/faxgetty. Hylafax is pretty easy.
> http://www.aboutdebian.com/fax.htm  (adjust to suit your Fedora
> system). 

There are external USB winmodems, so exercise care if you go the route
of USB.  To my knowledge, a serial port doesn't provide enough bandwidth
to support a software-only modem (though I could be wrong) so serial
port modems *should* be safe, I would think.

	--- Mike

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