Re: sendpage: HELP! HELP!

[Mike Porter <mike@copland.udel.edu>]

On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Douglas Mauro wrote:

> 
>   With your help I made some ground but lost some at the same time :*(
> I like this better than no ground moving at all.
> 
>   I can now connect with 1200 (I am so suprised) but I get a funny error
> message and than once I see the ID= I get IDLE timeout. 
> 
>   I tried combos of the AT commands you had with no success.
> 
>   I'm so close!!!
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Douglas Mauro
> mauro@empireone.net
> 
> Jan 06 13:36:31.22: [15275]: --> [2:OK]
> Jan 06 13:36:31.22: [15275]: DIAL 98690590
> Jan 06 13:36:31.22: [15275]: <-- [12:ATDT98690590]
> Jan 06 13:36:46.11: [15275]: --> [12:ATDT98690590]
> Jan 06 13:36:46.11: [15275]: PAGE FAILED: Unknown problem (check modem power)

I think you need to make sure echo is off.  The ATDT string is
being echoed, but HylaFAX should apparently see CONNECT as the next
string back from the modem.  Ie:

<-- [22:AT&Q6B0S37=5N0W2S95=1\r]
--> [2:OK]
DIAL 1xxxxxxxxxx
<-- [16:ATDT1xxxxxxxxxx\r]
--> [12:CONNECT 1200]
EXPECT ID (paging central identification)

I don't know why echo is on for you.  Perhaps you aren't running
faxgetty?  At any rate, my modem was sending asynchronous connect
messages back (messages that tell the DTE, DCE and error protocol),
and I too was seeing the 'PAGE FAILED' message.  Apparently, this
is what HylaFAX responds with when it reads something from the
modem that it does not expect.  ATW2 configures my modem to respond
with a simple CONNECT message.

Mike

> Jan 06 13:36:46.11: [15275]: <-- [4:ATH0]
> Jan 06 13:36:46.12: [15275]: --> [12:CONNECT 1200]
> Jan 06 13:36:46.45: [15275]: --> [3:ID=]
> Jan 06 13:36:51.45: [15275]: MODEM <Timeout>
> Jan 06 13:36:51.47: [15275]: SESSION END
> ...hangs...no retries...