http://juju.org/articles/2008/07/08/receiving-faxes-in-osx en-us 40 Sufficiently Advanced Technology <p>Today I setup a shared Fax modem on our OSX Server. Attached a USB modem and it recognized it just fine. Sending faxes was working great, but I couldn't get it to receive. No matter what I tried, it just wouldn't recognize that the phone line was ringing. According to Google a few other people had the same problem, but there were no solutions. So I dug around and found the problem. My modem was showing up as /dev/tty.usbmodem246802461. However, OSX expects it to be at /dev/tty.usbmodem. I couldn't find anywhere to configure it. I tried creating a symlink to it, but that didn't work. So what I ended up doing was modifying /usr/bin/fax and changing lines 37-38 from:</p> <pre>DEV=cu.usbmodem DEVANSWER=tty.usbmodem</pre> <p>To:</p> <pre>DEV=cu.usbmodem246802461 DEVANSWER=tty.usbmodem246802461</pre> <p>Then killed the efax process and now it works. WTF Apple?</p> Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:27:00 -0400 urn:uuid:11f94125-c6da-4915-b4ec-47ee81a7d8e7 Tony Buser http://juju.org/articles/2008/07/08/receiving-faxes-in-osx OSX osx apple fax wtf http://juju.org/articles/trackback/916