Re: [hylafax-users] hang-up noise when sending to certain destination

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

marthter wrote:

> Welcome to minicom 2.00.0
>
> OPTIONS: History Buffer, F-key Macros, Search History Buffer, I18n
> Compiled on Jan 25 2003, 00:15:18.
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> AT S7=45 S0=0 L1 V1 X4 &c1 E1 Q0
> OK
> at
> OK
> atdt19055551212
> NO CARRIER
> atdt19055551212
> NO CARRIER
>  

The initialization sequence that minicom does here is different from 
HylaFAX's.  Also, you're not putting the modem into fax mode, and so 
that could also prove to be a factor in the behavior difference.

> So I started to think the firmware was the difference that allowed ttyS4 
> to succeed, albeit only once  (plus having removed the ...Hack... line 
> from both of their configs, plus some other unknown.).  So question 
> number one is does anyone know how to update these modems' firmware in 
> Linux?  I googled and looked at the MultiTech website briefly but didn't 
> get far.
>  


Yeah, you flash them with this utility from Steve Tuckner:

 http://mtflashwiz.sourceforge.net/

You'll also want to take a look at the bug reports:

 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=450827&group_id=47799&func=browse

For patches and fixes.

> And !#@$#%$^%&^*&!  I haven't touched it (haven't changed configs or 
> used minicom) in over an hour, I just watched more attempts (still being 
> generated by our back end processes) fail and fail and just now (4:30 pm 
> if you're watching the log file timestamps above) 3 faxes went through! 
> (probably batched on a single successful call).
>
> Bloody hell I wish this was at least reproducible!

If I may, I would like to send a couple of test faxes.  May I?

Lee.

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