efax with a serial 3com us robotics 56k modem

[bob at a1poweruser.com]

I believe your xfax modem is what is called a winmodem.
These type of cheap modems are built just for the ms/windows market
and do not work on FreeBSD.
They are missing the onboard hardware controller which is why you
have to install the win driver that comes with it.

http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/fbsd_installguide/index.php

The above URL has very good step by step instructions on
configurating ppp for external modem with info on how to verify if
your modem is a winmodem.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gert
Cuykens
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 12:14 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: efax with a serial 3com us robotics 56k modem

yes i read the manual :P

I have been reading about ppp and about sio and scrolled trough the
big man efax

The good news is

TB-14R dmesg | grep sio
usb0: USB revision 1.0
usb1: USB revision 1.0
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10
on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
TB-14R

The bad news is that there is no fax tutorial for freebsd dummies :)
And i dont know wich serial port is sio0 or sio1 I connected the fax
to god knows wich sio and said "ok modem start faxing" hoping for a
mirical the sio was plug and play detected the fax and conected it
with my email client so i could sent and receive faxes.

Ps can you setup tty terminal trough usb ? It would be cool if i
could
replace my vidiocart with a usb cable :)
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