fax and asterisk

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:04:52PM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> I've been playing more with asterisk and fax and wanted to post this to 
> document what I found and see if anyone else had a better answer.
>
> I'm running Asterisk 1.6.2 under UBUNTU 9.10 using the UBUNTU packages. I 
> found that the latest for 9.04 was Asterisk 1.4, and had to upgrade my 
> second computer, which was a small disaster on its own.
>
> I obtained single user free licenses for each system for Free Fax for  
> Asterisk (FFA). I then installed them on each machine and found that  
> they caused Asterisk to crash with no information. I tracked that down  
> to having app_fax autoloaded and I had to mark it as not to be loaded in 
> modules.conf.

Those packages should have app_fax, so in most cases you won't need FFA.

I'm not sure there's yet FFA for Asterisk 1.6.2, and in any case when it
is avaialable, the interface for the fax module was changes relatively
late (after the Ubuntu packages were frozen, IIRC) to move the common
code of those two modules to a single module in the Asterisk tree.

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