isdn4linux and fax

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Hi,

Sven Liessem wrote:
> Sorry if this is a little bit off topic :
> 
> I've just read the faq for i4l and it's stated that it does
> NOT support fax (which was already said here by Gert some days ago).
> On the other hand i4l emulates a serial port (ttyIxx) that can
> be used to login with mgetty and at least some isdn cards out there
> (USR Imodem and maybe others) support fax class 2.

Those modems have DSP hardware on board that does the fax protocol
handling.

> So now I'm wondering where the problem is. Is there really no way
> to have fax on internal isdn cards ???

No. Unless you have really fast CPU, starve the rest of the system,
and invest *LOTS* of time in programming the stuff.

gert
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