My new USRobotics Sportster Voice 56K Faxmodem

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Hi,

Joseph Kwok wrote:
> After many unhappy experience on my Practical Peripherals 56K MiniTower
> modem, I decided to change a new one.  As Rockwell chipset no longer
> support Class 2 fax.  I decided to switch from K56 flex to X2.  I just
> install a USRobotics Sportster Voice 56K Faxmodem.

Sportsters are definitely not recommended, but I *did* indeed receive some
success reports.

> I download the V.90 flash from USRobotics and do the upgrade first.
> Then I simply replace my old modem with this new modem, the fax
> subsystem now works great.  For receiving fax, it seems much more
> stable.  In the past, I used to have complain that my modem didn't
> answer and could not negotiable the connection and result an "NO
> CARRIER" just like I use a telephone to dial to my modem and then hang
> up.

Hmmm - sounds promising.

> Initially, I have problem on sending fax.  It always return "BUSY" after
> a successful dial.  At last, I solve it by using ATX2 to disable
> detecting BUSY signal.  But I don't know whether it will have any side
> effect or not, any idea or comment?  But this fix the problem for me.

You might want to listen into the line (set the modem to "speaker on")
whether there are some unusual noises on the line.

> Of course, I need to set "ignore-carrier" to yes in order to send more
> than one page of fax.

Yep.

> Finally, I have found a small bug (or problem) when faxspool is working
> under Linux (or Red Head Linux 5.0 in specific).  It wrongly counts the
> number of pages.  In script faxspool, it counts the number of pages
> (maxnr) by using:
> pages=`ls $spooldir | sed '/^\./d'`
> maxnr=`echo $pages | wc -l | tr -d " "`
> The problem is "ls" in my case returns everything in one line and thus
> "wc" always returns me one.  I simply change it to "wc -w" and now the
> counting is correct.

What kind of "ls" is that?  This behaviour is completely broken.  I
haven't heard about it yet, though.

Are you sure you haven't set some $LS_OPTS to achieve exactly this
result (all in one line)?

gert
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