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Re: How to control idle state?



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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, David Ronis wrote:

> 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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