Re: [hylafax-users] Capi4Hylafax and AVM Fritz!Card PCI

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jaap Winius wrote:
> Several years ago, I was happy to discover an easy way to circumvent 
> all those pesky fax-modem compatibility problems: just use 
> capi4Hylafax with an AVM Fritz!Card PCI to work as a software fax. The 
> necessary software support for it is unfortunately closed source, but 
> it allowed me to compile a module for the 2.6.8 Linux kernel on my 
> Debian sarge without any problems.
>
> However, now that I've upgraded the server to Debian etch and kernel 
> 2.6.18, it seems like that closed source issue has come back to roost: 
> the AVM software refuses to compile! See the results in the 
> install.log below.
>
> Seeing as there haven't been any updates for that AVM software since 
> 2005, are
> these cards now considered useless for current Hylafax systems on 
> Linux? If
> not, I'd be grateful if someone could point me in the direction of a 
> solution. If so, what are currently the favored alternatives?

See another very-recent thread on a very closely-related topic:  
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.telephony.fax.hylafax.user/26157

So it'll be an involved setup to migrate to Asterisk+IAXmodem using 
chan_misdn... but I do believe you'll be better-off than you ever were 
with CAPI4HylaFAX.

Lee.


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