[KLUG Members] any isdn modem with Hylafax

[Adam Williams]

> I am getting more and more confused. Because the usb-isdn modem isn't 
> working, I decided to try another modem. So I got myself a pci-isdn 
> modem, installed it and it's being recognized.  But then reading the 
> hisax and the isdnctrl manual pages again, I get the feeling that I only 
> can get the modem running when a tcp-stack is added.

ISDN devices are *NOT* modems.  A source of much confusion.  They are
"network terminals" or "NT"s, intelligent digital communication devices.
They have almost nothing what-so-ever in common with modems.

> I don't want to run (raw) ip on the isdn card. I just want to get it 
> working as any async modem would, via a /dev/something. I think I am 
> losing any overview I had left...
> Need some help to get me going again. How do I get an isdn modem 
> available so Hylafax can see and use it?

I believe you ISDN modem has to support something called "active" mode,
if it is a passive device I don't believe it will work.

Maybe take a look at -
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November2003/article317.shtml
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=fa.f0heb3v.1u44o8c%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=10&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Disdn%2Bhylafax%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Dfa.f0heb3v.1u44o8c%2540ifi.uio.no%26rnum%3D10

I believe most modern distro's have CAPI support built in.