fax printer, is there still some knowlege about it or are we in post-fax-era

[michaa7]

I'm (meanwhile desperately) trying to set up software to (only) sent fax (mgetty, mgetty-fax, fax4cups for faxing via external, analog usr5k_pro faxmodem.

I have no clue how to set up this cups faxprinter in CUPS administration, I can't find how and where to configure an URI for the faxprinter as explained in "man fax4cups":

...
You have to create a CUPS printer using a URI of the form ... mgetty-fax:/dev/<device>
for mgetty-fax ...; of course, you must use the
corresponding PPD file. Then, printing will result in sending the fax to the number contained in the job name
(which can be set with the -J option of lpr) or in the phone regular option (setting the phone number through a
job name now works also when using Samba). The creation of the printer can also be easily accomplished from the
CUPS web interface, by choosing a suitable device.
...

There are "suitable device"s in the cups web interface, but I have no clue if and how the are "connected" to fax4cups:
Lokale Drucker:   
LPT #1 (unknown)
HP Printer (HPLIP) (Unknown)
Local HylaFAX server (Unknown)
Serial Port #1 (Unknown)
CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF Printer)
HP Fax (HPLIP) (Unknown)

hylafax is *not* installed, serial port 1 seems somehow appropriate (modem is attatched to ttyS0), maybe lpr #1 is appropriate too?

After installein fax4cups I'd expect something like fax4cups-printer.

Anyway, if someone has installed fax4cups, please tell me how to configure this POS faxprinter using cups web interface.

Thanks.

[ReinerS]

Ohh, so long ago 

Definitely no lp/lpt as this were/are parallel devices.
I had this running on an isdn card long ago. Now I use an brother All-in One.
To my knowledge/memory the devices ttySx are used for modems.
I donot know whether fax4cups creates its own device.

As I just realized fax4cups doesnt seem to be included in debian/sid anymore (was it ever?), where did you get it from?. Maybe you should have a look into those packages:
efax
efax-gtk
gfax

From the reading it might well be that those have included all features that you need. Otherwise I could only think on hylafax-server, which is quite an big and complex package.


Regards

Reiner

[ReinerS]

There is an solution for adding an fax-printer to cups via efax mentioned here :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1246166

maybe that helps, I will try it out too some time as my laptop still has a modem card in it and that might be usefull sometime.

regards

Reiner

[michaa7]

thanks, I'll give efax+ a try tomorrow.