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<div dir="auto">I did some research. USB modems use the <span style="color:#333333;font-family:Open Sans, sans-serif;font-size: 24px">Conexant (now owned by Rockwell) chipset. </span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Open Sans, sans-serif;font-size: 24px">The drivers are propietary.</span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Open Sans, sans-serif;font-size: 24px">There used to be freeware reverse engineered drivers and the other option was to use Dell windows drivers using the windows driver compatability package.</span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Open Sans, sans-serif;font-size: 24px">They may not be compatible with the current kernels.</span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Open Sans, sans-serif;font-size: 24px">There also is a commercial linux driver, a license sells for $20. You can buy the source version and compile it yourself, one person did it on a raspberry pi with a slight mod.</span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Open Sans, sans-serif;font-size: 24px">The other viable option is to buy a used rs232 fax modem and an FTDI usb to rs232 converter if your computer does not have an rs232 port.</span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Open Sans, sans-serif;font-size: 24px">Asterisk had a voip to fax driver, but I never was able to get it to work, it may still be available and useable, I dont know.</span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Open Sans, sans-serif;font-size: 24px">A third option would be to scan facebook marketplace, yad2, or agora for a multifunction scanner, printer, fax with a broken printer or scanner that has the apporopriate linux drivers and just use it as a modem.</span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 24px"><br /></span><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Open Sans, sans-serif;font-size: 24px">Geoff</span></div>
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<div name="messageReplySection">On Jan 10, 2021, 8:39 AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh <shachar@shemesh.biz>, wrote:<br />
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/01/2021 10:39, Omer Zak wrote:<br /></div>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I am one of the holdouts who still use FAX technology.
My printer was of the type which combines printing + scanning + FAX. A
week ago it died, and I looked for a new printer with the same
combination of features.
Turned out that there is a shortage of
printers, so I bought a printer with scanner but without FAX.
And now I am looking for a solution to continue to receive FAX messages
on my landline phone line.
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<p>The software of yore should still work. The tricky part is getting the correct hardware and drivers.</p>
<p>I quick search found several USB modems sold today, but most only list Windows as their compatibility, and it's impossible to know whether that means they are WinModems (zero nostalgia) or just lazy.</p>
<p>I did, however, find this:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amazon.com/V-TOP-External-V-92-Modem-Cable/dp/B00XW5QYWS/ref=psdc_284715_t4_B07H3Q74L8">https://www.amazon.com/V-TOP-External-V-92-Modem-Cable/dp/B00XW5QYWS/ref=psdc_284715_t4_B07H3Q74L8</a></p>
<p>It lists Mac in it's title, but the actual text also explicitly lists Linux as a supported platform. It might, theoretically, still be a WinModem with (proprietary) drivers, but considering the cost of hardware (a 56Kbps modem can _easily_ be created with a 5$ micrcontroller/dsp/FPGA), I find it more likely that this is a full fledged hardware modem.</p>
<p>With that in mind, I recently bought a Canon integrated printer, and it came with fax capabilities. I'm just about to cancel my "land line", so this feature is increasingly becoming useless for me, personally, but know that it's still out there.</p>
<p>Shachar<br /></p>
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