flexfax: Hylafax and ECM

[Kai Petzke <info@teltarif.de>]

Hello,


this is an enquiry about modems and HylaFax.  Does anybody have a list of
modems, that reliably support ECM and 2D compression under Hylafax?

So far, I tried a no name modem (which does only class 1, so no ECM under
hylafax) and a US robotics Sportster Flash 56k.  The later does have class
2.0, but it seems to have a bad firmware bug.  After the connection, when
it reports the identity of the called modem (FCI) and the session
capabilities (FIS), it just prints weird data...  Neither HylaFax nor efax
work with that modem in class 2.0 mode, but both work with it in class 1
mode ...

So, I got three questions:

1) Did other people have problems, too, with this particular modem?
2) Is there a database of modems, that reliably support ECM and 2D
   compression in fax class 2.0 mode?
3) Might Hylafax implement ECM and 2D compression in class 1 modems in
   the future?

Thanks for any answer in advance.


Kai Petzke