[hylafax-users] Ubuntu - faxing

["James Freer" <jrjfreer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm a newbie and have joined the group hoping to solve some of my
faxing problems.

Using ubuntu 8.04

Perhaps i'm a rarity but i find the use of fax indispensable mainly
for sending. I have several winmodems and a serial BT fax modem.

For several years i have used a winmodem on windoze and never had a
problem. Now that i have switched to ubuntu i don't seem to be able to
send faxes reliably. The serial modem works on efax-gtk and Gfax BUT
seems to jumble up the odd line or worse miss out a line altogether.

In windoze days i found a hardware pci modem wasn't entirely reliable
and switched to a winmodem [conexant].  The winmodem was much more
reliable it seemed and quality of sent faxes better.

With ubuntu and the serial modem i've spent a couple of days
on-and-off trying to find why i get these glitches happen and if it's
possible to correct it. [Seems daft to have an old win98 machine just
for sending a fax]. It makes no difference whether i send as a pdf
file or Abiword or OO-writer through printer driver. I found Hylafax
rather hard to set up and still unclear on installation. Is it a
better app than efax-gtk and gfax - my use is personal and only a
stand alone pc?

a] is there some bug with these two apps... some tweak i don't know
about. If someone has had similar problems i'd be grateful if you
could advise.

b] are hardware modems more likely to be unreliable... i would have
thought not - my limited experience though seems to suggest this.

c] web based... is this a better route
http://www.hylafax.org/content/Web_Based_Faxing

thanks
james


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