Re: flexfax: FaxSend message: Invalid dialing command

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

> I have the US-Robotics Sportster Message Plus Modem and I get the

Have you read the archives and the USR bugs web page?   This is unlikely to
be your problem here, but you are likely to have problems later.

> following message in /var/log/messages when I try to send a Fax.
> 
> Platform:       Linux, Kernel 2.0.33,

I am not aware of any kernel version related problems.  There are many
distribution type and version problems.  So what version of what distribution
are you using and do you have any upgraded run time libraries?

> Hylafax:        4.0pl2

Can we assume that you built from source?  Otherwise which version of which
package did you use?

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> May 26 19:56:27 linux FaxGetty[269]: ANSWER: Can not lock modem device
> ...

It was probably not a good idea to prune the logs, and I think that you
may not have an adequate logging level enabled.

> May 26 19:56:33 linux FaxSend[360]: MODEM input buffering disabled
> May 26 19:56:33 linux FaxSend[360]: SEND FAX: JOB 14 DEST 06233 506085
> COMMID 00000005
> May 26 19:56:39 linux FaxSend[360]: SEND FAILED: Invalid dialing command
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> What's the reason. My dialing command is "ATDT%s".
> 
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> J=FCrgen
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