Internal Fax Modem on Beige

My Beige didn't come with an on-board/internal fax modem, but has a slot for one above the A/V personality card. Anyone know if an Apple OEM 56K modem can still be had somewhere and, if so, can it be easily installed.
I'd like to get my US Robotics X2 modem off my desktop (clutter issues) and out of that serial port. I can't get it to work with OS 10.3.9 anyway.

Carl,
Faxing in Panther should be doable with your external serial port modem. So you might consider keeping it, if you can get it working. I have a BestData 56K serial port modem that I use for dial-up internet. When not connected to the internet I can send and receive faxes under 10.3.9, thanks to this tip on the Other World Computing, XPostFacto HOW-TO forum:
http://forum.macsales.com/viewtopic.php?t=1767
Fax to/from Panther using External Modem
I was very surprised that it would work, I thought that all serial devices, printers and modems, would no longer have driver support under OS X, like the floppy drive. If you use Ethernet for the internet you can auto e-mail received faxes, I'm not sure if that's magic or if you have to enable PostFix manually or with PostFix Enabler.
You might get some strange behavior if you enable fax receiving and auto dial-up to connect to the internet, you can't have the modem physically do both, and the drivers competing for the modem connection can lock things up. If you don't plan to use the modem for internet, then this isn't an issue for you. I don't enable receiving all the time, only when I really need to get a fax at home, I can enable it as needed.
I have just recently installed 10.4.6 and have set up my dial-up account to connect to the internet, but haven't tried to configure the fax yet. I hope that the Panther method will still work.
-Glen.

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- I followed the directions presented to me from the Help docos, and the system always told me, 'Fax will be transmitted after disconnecting from Network', and it never did anything.
What are the correct procedures to follow in order to get this thing to work? Images would be nice... Reading docos isn't my thing, they remind me of the online help which MS has in place for all their applications... Web Docs is not as intuitive as guiding a user through the process like Apple Guide used to do. Just a suggestion to the Apple developers out there;/
The diagram setup is:
<pre>
DATA POINT <------------------> ADSL MODEM <--------> TELEPHONE POINT #1
^
|
|
|
v
IMAC <------------------> USB HUB <--------> CANAN 850MP MULTI FUNCTIONAL PRINTER
^
|
v ^
INTERNAL |
MODEM |
^ |
| |
v v
<-------------------------------------> FAX POINT #2
</pre>
hope the above isn't hard to understand.
Cheers
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Matt

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