Re: [hylafax-users] Distinctive Ring and Answering Fax ONLY

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:32:05PM -0400, Sunil William Savkar wrote:
> > If what you are asking is "how do I get faxgetty to answer the phone for
> > fax calls ("RING2"), and not answer the phone for voice calls
> > ("RING1") because my answering machine on the same line is going to pick
> > those up", then yes, you set RingFax to RING2, and leave
> > everything else blank.
> >
> > If you're wanting to do voice-mail-y stuff with voice capable modems,
> > then you need to also set RingVoice, and do some vgetty magic that I am
> > not personally familiar with, and which isn't documented the best of any
> > task in the world...
> 
> Thanks!  I definitely wanted to only deal with fax only, so what you
> suggest is the answer.

Cool.  When answering such questions, I try to remember that I'm
writing for the list archive.  :-)

> On the other hand, I am having a hell of a time setting my USR faxmodem so
> that distinctive ring is turned on.  I read the documentation and
> supposidly
> 
> ATS41=1 should do the trick.  However, this simply causes an error
> whenever I try to give the command.  I figured I would then save it in
> vram, but this is just not working.
> 
> Any clues?

What *exactly* is the modem again?  Tell us everything written on the
sticker that looks like a model number, and you could throw in the
output of probemodem, too (I *think* that dumps all the ATI strings...)

Cheers,
-- jra
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