flexfax: Adaptive Answering and Getty's

["I. Forbes" <iforbes@zsd.co.za>]

Hello List

Is anybody successfully making use of adaptive answering?

I have Hylafax running on a number of boxes, some doing outgoing 
only and some out and incoming faxes.  All using Linux Debian ver 
2.0 and 2.1.

Now I am trying to setup adaptive answering on a new box.  Has 
anybody got this working?  After over 60 logged phone calls, I have 
made no progress :-(


I have to basic problems:

1) Calling getty:

The Debian sets up symbolic links to getty-link, egetty-link and 
vgetty-link to mgetty.  However the default arguments supplied in 
"GettyArgs" don't work and I suspect that they never will.

I have now tried "mgetty", "agetty" and I have had a look at 
"gettyps" and a variety of combinations of GettyArgs.  Nothing 
wants to work.  I get one of three things:

-   The getty dies with an error code 

-   The call hangs up imediately, but the getty hangs around on the
    receiving end 'till I kill it, or  

-   If the call is answered, but I get garbage on the line and when
    I hang up the calling modem the getty hangs around on the
    receiving end 'till I kill it. 

If there is somebody out there who has this working, please let me 
know, which "getty" program are you using and what GettyArgs 
string do you use.


2) Making the modem do Adaptive answering.

The modem is a 56K Rockwell based Class 1 modem.  Straight 
sending and receiving of faxes seems to work well.  

I did some tests and found that if I use minicom to answer the 
modem, and I give it a factory reset AT&F1 then AT+FAE=1 and 
then use ATA to answer an incomming call, it answers fax with fax a 
fax handshake and data with a data handshake.

So I tried a setup

ModemSetupAACmd  AT+FCLASS=0+FAE=1

This works for starting a data call but somehow the fax machine 
hangs up during the handshake.

I think this one is not so easy to sort out.  But there is no point in 
trying to get it right if I can't the a data connection from faxgetty in 
the 1st place!

If you have either of the above working for you, please let me know 
how!

Thanks

Ian Forbes


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