Re: [hylafax-users] HSF modem doesn't answer phone

[Barry Lay <blay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee, George, thanks for the help.  Using minicom does seem to indicate 
that the RING is not being sent which would explain why faxgetty is not 
doing anything.  I will try the hsf mailing list to see if there is an 
answer out there.

Barry

George Bell wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 May 2004 18:24, Barry Lay wrote:
>  
>
> > I have a USR 5660A fax modem running on a RedHat ES 2.1 system with
> > Hylafax 4.1.8.  I downloaded the latest HSF driver from Linuxant.com and
> > applied the license (so it is a full version).  The modem seems to
> > respond to the chat from faxgetty but it won't answer the phone - just
> > rings and rings. I set RingsBeforeAnswer to 3 and ModemType to Class1
> > operation.  Its pretty much the Rockwell RC288DPi config otherwise.  If
> > I use faxanswer then it receives the fax just fine.  Obviously this
> > isn't going to work for unattended operation.
> >
> > I have set ServerTracing to 15 and SessionTracing to 11, but I don't see
> > any logs in either the hylafax log area or in the system messages file
> > that relates until I use faxanswer at which point I get the log of the
> > successful receipt.
> >    
>
> I'd check that the modem is sending you "RING" with a communication terminal 
> program, such as minicom, while the phone's ringing.   My *guess* is the 
> problem is with the linuxant driver.   If you can't find an answer here, I'd 
> try the list for linuxant "hcflinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx".
>
>  
>
> > I noticed that the default setup sent ATS0=0 to the modem, so I added
> > "ATS0=3" in the config file for ModemSetupAACmd and I can see that it
> >    
>
> It sets number of rings to autoanswer by the modem.  Hylafax sets that to zero 
> to disable autoanswer.  It should be left at zero.
>
> George
>
>
>  

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