Anyone use a Sportster 33.6 Voice with success?

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"A month of sundays ago Gert Doering wrote:"
> On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 08:04:57PM -0700, Dave Packham wrote:
> > Its hanging on me and I have to power off the server to get the phone to
> > ring and give me a tone.
> 
> Power off the server?  That's something unspeakable.

I do have a usr 33.6 voice sportster (talking to a usr 14.4 sportster)
with mgetty runing on both. Yes, one or both do go into unusable states
that are curable by power cycling the modem (cycling the machine can
sometime s fix things too - probably by spiking the mains :-). However
this is not the solution ...

In fact the best cure is to run minicom on the affected modem.  I think
the problem is the faxready state that mgetty puts them in and minicoms
"bye bye" message always resets them back to sanity.  That's apart from
trying a few atz0 (not atz, since that doesn't work on usr) and at&f0
and whatever.  _anything_ that can get back to a sane state.  Then I
usually make a data call through minicom.  Sometimes it doesn't work - a
ppp negogiation will hangup the modems in this state - but usually it
does.  And as soon as a data call has gone through the state machine
seems to have been regularized.  Bad attacks of the illness really do
need the on/off switch with a five minute wait, however.

Then there are the mysterious registers on the usrs that can help ..
something like ats15.7=1 afair. ("strange firmware anomaly" or whatever
....). It took me a year to find out how to call data from the 33.6 to
the 14.4 (don't autobaud).

hth

> 
> gert
> 


Peter