Re: flexfax: How to control idle state?

[Bob Worthy <bworthy@worthy.com>]

Nico, I've had a very similar problem (see message to the list as of
last Friday).  I was not able to get the Sportster (33.6) to work as a
class 1 (serial buffering too slow) or class 2.0 modem, and it doesn't
support class 2.  After grabbing a $25 modem that uses a Rockwell chip,
class 2 fax out works, but i have the same problem with mode switching
back to data.

It would be useful if somewhere in the docs there were some sample
config.ttyXX with corresponding getty.ttyXX files, since they need to be
coordinated if faxgetty is used.

It may be possible to forgo using faxgetty if you get just the right set
of entries in config.ttyXX, but all that is in the list archives are
snippets of commands that various people say work.  I spent about three
days on this, and never hit the right combination.

If you find a way to get the same modem to work both as fax send AMD
data receive, especially using a USR Sportster, I'd sure like to see
your config files.  Call me day or night.  (The $25 modems say
"CREATIVE" on the case and go up to 19200 for data.  According to the
guys who purchased them, most of 'em actually work.)

If no one offers any workable advice via this list I think that using
two modems to share the same phone line, one for fax out, and one for
dial up, no faxgetty, is going to be my solution.  Haven't tried it yet,
but it should work.

Good luck.

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
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> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, David Ronis wrote:
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> > I'm running hylafax 4.0pl2 on a sparc-10, running SunOS 5.6.  I'm using
> > a usr-sportster 56K faxmodem (1 year old), and have configured hylafax to
> > use it as a class 1 device.  Since we rarely send faxes and never receive them,
> > I don't run faxgetty and hence manually turn on the software when we want to
> > send (I know this is dumb).
> >
> > Here's my problem:  when finished sending a fax, the modem remains in fax mode
> > and incoming data calls don't work.  This also is the case when I shutdown
> > with faxquit.  The only thing that works is to manually send an atz0 to the
> > device after faxq has exited.
> 
> Run faxgetty, and set the config files  to answer calls as data only.
> 
> > ModemResetCmds          ATZ0ATH0                # Modem reset commands
> 
> This is run by faxgetty, near as I can tell.
> 
> > P.S.,  is there any information about adaptive answering and my modem?  Is it
> > suported and if so, how well?
> 
> I don't believe Class 1 modems support adaptive-answering. And USR has
> gotten an *EXTREMELY* bad rep for their Sportster models, so that
> might be part of other problems you've had.
> 
>                         Nico Garcia
>                         Senior Engineer, CIRL
>                         Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
>                         raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu
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