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Thanks Rich Teer.

The only problem with Solaris/Sparc is the lack of serial ports. Only 2.
What is available for SBUS in the way of internal modems or additional
serials ports?

What about on a Ultra 10? Multitech fax/modems are amoung the best with
10 year warranty. http://www.multitech.com/PRODUCTS/Fa...MultiModemZPX/
Can Ultra 10 PCI accommodate these?

Have your tried softmodems?
http://www.hylafax.org/content/Hardw...atibility_List

Thanks for taking the time to answer my question.
Your experienced advice is most welcome!!

Rich Teer wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Mikail Dellovich wrote:
>
>> Can someone recommend good fax software for Linux/PC or Solaris/PC/Sparc -
>> preferably Open Source? Also good fax card as well?
>
> Hylafax is the open source software of choice, available from
> www.hylafax.org. Don't bother with a "modem card" as it's likely
> to be a Winmodem and a major headache. Get a proper, external
> fax/modem instead. I'm partial to the USR Couriers (coz I have
> one!), but the USR Sportster will also do the job.
>
>> I can run either RHEL ES 4u4 or Solaris 10 x86/Sparc, depending on what fax
>> software is available.
>
> Hylafax is supported on Solaris, so naturally that's the platform I'd recommend.
> SPARC or x86 is up to you.
>

Mikail Dellovich <foo@foo.com> writes:

>The only problem with Solaris/Sparc is the lack of serial ports. Only 2.
>What is available for SBUS in the way of internal modems or additional
>serials ports?

Magma (and presumably others) had a whole range of Sbus serial
ports (I seem to remember 8 and 16 port cards)

>What about on a Ultra 10? Multitech fax/modems are amoung the best with
>10 year warranty. http://www.multitech.com/PRODUCTS/Fa...MultiModemZPX/
>Can Ultra 10 PCI accommodate these?

No idea about serial for PCI; there is also the possibility of using
PCI USB cards and USB serial ports.

Casper
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According to Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM>:
> Mikail Dellovich <foo@foo.com> writes:
>
> >The only problem with Solaris/Sparc is the lack of serial ports. Only 2.
> >What is available for SBUS in the way of internal modems or additional
> >serials ports?
>
> Magma (and presumably others) had a whole range of Sbus serial
> ports (I seem to remember 8 and 16 port cards)

They also made a 4-port sBus card. I picked it up at a hamfest
thinking that it would be a quad ethernet card -- but the connectors are
RJ-50 (10-pin) instead of the RJ-45 (8-pin) used for twisted-pair
ethernet.

When I found it, the drivers were still downloadable, along with
the manuals. (This was about a year and a half ago).

And -- drivers for it are built into OpenBSD as well, if you
prefer to go that way.

> >What about on a Ultra 10? Multitech fax/modems are amoung the best with
> >10 year warranty. http://www.multitech.com/PRODUCTS/Fa...MultiModemZPX/
> >Can Ultra 10 PCI accommodate these?
>
> No idea about serial for PCI; there is also the possibility of using
> PCI USB cards and USB serial ports.

Again -- you might find it easier to get drivers for serial
cards made for PCs with OpenBSD or linux or something like that, where
they would have developed the drivers for PCI based Intel boxen, and
they would simply be part of the kernel on any system with a PCI bus.
(Solaris tends to go with loadable drivers for third-party cards, so as
long as the third party still offers the drivers, you are fine.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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In article <12lam0oc18vjed4@news.supernews.com>,
Mikail Dellovich <foo@foo.com> writes:
> Thanks Rich Teer.
>
> The only problem with Solaris/Sparc is the lack of serial ports. Only 2.
> What is available for SBUS in the way of internal modems or additional
> serials ports?
>
> What about on a Ultra 10? Multitech fax/modems are amoung the best with
> 10 year warranty. http://www.multitech.com/PRODUCTS/Fa...MultiModemZPX/
> Can Ultra 10 PCI accommodate these?

No. Neither sparc nor x86 have any support for PCI serial cards or
modems out of the box. I was working on it a couple of years back
as a spare time activity, but didn't have enough spare time.

Solaris x86 asy driver includes support for the MultiTech MT5634ZPX
which is an internal ISA bus modem, but only with Solaris 10 03/05
(it requires ISA PnP support which isn't present with newer releases).
Obviously, you would need a system with an ISA bus slot for this card.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data...tails/669.html

--
Andrew Gabriel

On 2006-11-12 10:20:13 +0000, andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew
Gabriel) said:

> Solaris x86 asy driver includes support for the MultiTech MT5634ZPX
> which is an internal ISA bus modem, but only with Solaris 10 03/05
> (it requires ISA PnP support which isn't present with newer releases).
> Obviously, you would need a system with an ISA bus slot for this card.
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data...tails/669.html

There's some support for USB-serial converters in Solaris 10 6/06, so
if you have any spare USB slots...

Cheers,

Chris