Re: flexfax: any chance for using ISDN ?

["Dirk Traenapp" <Tr@NWOFS2.nwowhv.de>]

Hi Andreas,

-> I haven't found anything in FAQs, so this is probably not
-> a frequently asked question (why actually... ? ):

Maybe because anybody hates this topic :-) 

-> Are there any plans, or is there any chance to run
-> Hylafax with some kind of ISDN hardware? I would even
-> be happy with using a couple of internal ISDN terminal
-> adapters that emulate 2.0 fax modems...

We tried to use external ISDN-TA's (ELSA TLV.34 ISDN) but they don't 
work well! These modems crashed so often (always the newest 
firmware!) that i decided to throw them out! I found another solution 
to use ISDN! It is not the way a wanted to use but i only want to get 
the phonenumber which was called. The proper working way is:

 ISDN -- ISDN-analog-adaptor -- Normal modem -- ttySx on LINUX
       |
         -------------------------------------- ISDN-card with LINUX

In $HYLADIR/bin/faxrcvd i am sniffing the /var/log/messages for the 
ISDN-card roumoring about incoming calls. In combination with the 
right ttySx we can do the trick! This works perfect and nobody is 
angry about LINUX and HylaFAX anymore!

There is another solution using the AVM-B1 internal ISDN-card but i 
haven't tried it!

I hope that helps!

cu