FW: Fax-receive Problem with mgetty 1.1.18

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:15:15 +0100


Hi,

On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 06:50:26PM +0100, Marc.Hansen@tg.fh-giessen.de wrote:
> I have mgetty 1.1.18 under SuSE 6.0 and an older 14400 class 2 Modem.
> 
> When I receive a call, both modems are talking to each other, then 
> hangs my modem.
[..]
> 
> 
> 01/12 22:48:51 dem  start fax receiver...                                       
>                                                                               
> 01/12 22:48:51 dem   fax receiver: entry                                        

Incoming call is "recognized" as FAX.

> 01/12 22:48:51 dem  fax_wait_for(OK)                                            
>                                                                               
> 01/12 22:48:51 dem    got:[0a][0d][0a][e6][80][98][80][9e][86]x[98]`f[98]f[86][8

This is pretty weird - it looks like "wrong baud rate", but you're already
at 19200, so that should be OK.

> ]f[98][18]f[1e][18][06][fe][0d]                                                 
>                                                                               
> 01/12 22:49:07 dem   fax_wait_for: string 'x`ff~``````f`~fxff`fff`x`fxffff'     
>                                                                               
> 01/12 22:49:07 dem    got:[0a][0d][0a]NO CARRIER[0d]                            

And then your modem gives up.

Are you sure that the modem really can do fax reception?  Did you try with
Windows?

gert
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