My new USRobotics Sportster Voice 56K Faxmodem

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Gert Doering wrote:

> 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.
>

I celebrate too early.  I got complains again.  Still some fax machines cannot get
"CONNECT" with the ATA command.  I know there is nothing mgetty can do on that
because there is not yet any connection.  I am now asking support from USRobotics
to see anything can do on that.  I doubt that there are many kinds of incompatible
fax machine.  But it looks like fax machine can always talk to fax machine but may
not be able to tale to fax modem.

> > 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.
>

No noise, but just normal ring.  I uses 2 telephone line and 2 modems.  If the
other side didn't reply on the first 2 ring, the sportster treat it as BUSY unless
I disable the BUSY detection.

> > 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)?

No ls option is being used.  I tried the above shell commands by hand and get the
result that all ls files are in one line and thus I have to count on the number of
words instead.

>
>
> gert
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  Thanks for your reply!

Regards,
Joseph