basic understandable fax basics (for Dell X300 or other)

[pstock]

This "how to fax from Linux" seems to be a common concern, without simple solutions.
At least I cannot find a simple, understandable set of instructions.

I'll post this here in Laptops. let's see what happens.

I have a Dell X300 laptop. Since overwriting WIndows XP with Ubuntu 9.04, I cannot fax. Nor can I even identify what type of modem I have on this thing (which I expect might be a requirement at some point in the process.)

can anyone direct me to a lay-person-level article or thread that would walk me through getting fax capabilities from this machine?

thank you

Peter

[reed9]

Hello. Can you post the output of

lspci -v

This is an internal fax/modem we're talking about, right?

[pstock]

peter@peterx300:~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at <unassigned> (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: intelfb

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: fast devsel
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at e0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at e0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: e0200000-e02fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 30000000-37ffffff
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 1810 [size=16]
Memory at 38000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
Memory at e0100c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at e0100800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Conexant Systems, Inc. Device 5422
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0m

02:03.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
Memory at e0212000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 30000000-33fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 3c000000-3ffff000
I/O window 0: 00003000-000030ff
I/O window 1: 00003400-000034ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket

02:03.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
Memory at e0213000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 34000000-37fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 40000000-43fff000
I/O window 0: 00003800-000038ff
I/O window 1: 00003c00-00003cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket

02:03.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Dell Device 014f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at e0211000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
Kernel modules: firewire-ohci, ohci1394

02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 2721
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at e0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ipw2200
Kernel modules: ipw2200

02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 2003
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at e0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3

peter@peterx300:~$

[reed9]

This is about the best I can find on this.

linmodems.org

Installing sl-modems in Linux

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto