Re: flexfax: Help: HylaFAX and US Robotics 56K voice v90 modem

[gdoris@shaw.wave.ca]

I have a US Robotics 56K v90 datafax v90 modem and it's working fine.  I've
attached the config file for it.  I did have to edit some of the default
commands though.

Gerry


On 03-Dec-98 Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> Dean Tran wrote:
>> 
>> I spend few days to set up the Hylafax to work with my computer:
>> 
>> Pentium II 400 MHZ
>> US Robotic 56K voice (v90) internal modem
>> 
>> I have all ghostscripts/tiff installed per instruction of HylaFAX
>> homepage.
>> 
>> After I finish 'faxsetup' and 'faxaddmodem' my modem is in unknown
>> state, that I can't dial in my ISP server. Must reset the modem with ATZ
>> 
>> command.  With faxaddmodem, I choose (and test each AT command)
>> to my best knowledge.
>> 
>> Still can't send fax out with test fax file (sendfax -n -d xxx.xxx
>> file_name )
>> 
>> faxstat -s tell me that:
>> 
>> HylaFAX scheduler on localhost is running
>> Modem ttyS2 ...... : Waiting for modem to come free        <--- what
>> does this mean???
>> 
> I have the misfortune of working with a US Robotics Sportster also. 
> (This is just a proof-of-concept I'm working on; when I show the boss,
> if he likes it, we'll buy something decent).  When you do 'faxaddmodem',
> is it detecting the type of the modem correctly?  There are matching
> rules that match what the modem tells you it is against the config
> files.  If you are telling it that it's a Class 1 modem (which I had to
> do to get things to work), it's using a 4-digit code that's coming back
> from the modem to do this.  Find out through 'cu -l' what that code is
> (ATI0 command).  My code, 3361, was not in the usr-xon or usr-rts files,
> so I stuck it in there.  Once faxmodem was able to pick up the right
> config file as a template, the right strings were used to talk to my
> modem, so I got away from the problem you're having.  (You could also
> just copy over usr-xon or usr-rts over to etc/config.ttyS2, and then
> modify it by hand; but I like being able to have faxaddmodem do stuff
> for me).
> 
> Good luck.  Of course the best answer is to get another kind of modem!

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Date: 03-Dec-98
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