Re: flexfax: USR Modems

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Robert Colquhoun wrote:

> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 12:52:34 +1100
> From: Robert Colquhoun <rjc@trump.net.au>
> To: flexfax@sgi.com
> Subject: flexfax: USR Modems
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Lately there have been a rather large volume of messages concerning the
> Sportster and failures with class 2.0.  To help stop the email flood, i was
> thinking of compiling a page with the firmware versions of the Sportster
> that work and firmware versions that dont work.
> 
> Eventually this information could be merged back into the faxaddmodem
> script and set the broken modems automatically to class 1

Instead, how about a tiny little shell script to check the modem for
class and inform the user if it's a known good configuration? This
could be generated at compile time, installed along with probemodem,
and make *recommendations* about the modem class to run in.


			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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