Re: [hylafax-users] [hylafax-devel] !!! USR/3COM modems and the latest CVS !!!

[Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>]

Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com> writes:

> >But IMHO it's better not to use their Class 2.0 at all -- there are other
> >known firmware problems, at least for Sportsters. Why not to try Class1?
> 
> Dmitry, by firmware problems are you referring to the Copy Quality Checking
> erronous "(0),(2)" report that most Sportsters make, or are there *other*
> firmware bugs in Sportsters' Class 2.0?

Yes, there are others :-( Here is an example:

http://www.hylafax.org/archive/developers/Y2000-Q2/msg00106.html
http://www.hylafax.org/archive/developers/Y2000-Q2/msg00117.html

> The reason that I ask is that I don't have any trouble with two 56K
> Sportster modems that I'm running in Class 2.0 - in fact, they perform
> better in most cases than my Rockwell Class 2 modems.  So is HylaFAX
> somehow "working around" these bugs, or is the Class2CQQuery the firmware
> bug of which you're thinking?

That AT+FCQ=? response is a bug, but not the real one. Working around
*real* (fax protocol-related) Class 2/2.0 bugs usually is not possible :-(

Hope to hear from you soon,
Dmitry




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