[Asterisk-Users] Setup faxing with latest CVS/STABLE

[Bob Goddard]

On Monday 08 Aug 2005 09:57, Lee Archer wrote:
> I have been trying to get faxing working with stable but I have had no luck
> since cvs 1.0.4.  I've tried 3 versions of SpanDSP and the system answers
> the fax but looks like it isn't training properly.

Top poster!

I find that if you send to a Hylafax system, it will give you valuable
info on why it is failing.

I've found though that spandsp is quite poor at faxing. Sometimes it
would work and sometimes it would fail. The moral of this story is,
use a system with proper DSPs and use Hylafax.


B


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Bob Goddard
> Sent: 06 August 2005 23:44
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Setup faxing with latest CVS
>
> On Saturday 06 Aug 2005 22:41, Erick Johnson wrote:
> > I have been trying to setup faxing with a recent CVS-HEAD.  I have
> > downloaded and compiled spandsp-0.0.2pre18 and gotten
> > apps_makefile.patch, app_txfax.c and app_rxfax.c
> >
> > I'm not suprised that the patch failed.  Does anyone know what changes
> > need to be made for this to work?
> >
> > I have very little Fedora experience and no experience in changing
> > make files so this is all new to me.
>
> At least take a look, you'll find the changes are very simple.