error with USR sportster 33.6k fax/data modem?

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Hi,

without a mgetty and/or sendfax log file, it is not possible to give any
meanigful advice.

gert

Henry H Lu wrote:
> I bought this USR modem in Aug. 1996, still a new modem. I failed badly 
> with mgetty+sendfax. it can not send or receive fax. I did exactly as faq 
> said. I played with policy.h (like setting define #US Robotics modem flag 
> on and off) and still failed to send fax. one time when I set mgetty in 
> my inittab file, after reboot, the whole modem freeze and I could not ppp 
> or fax.
> 
> I am running redhat linux 3.0.3 (kernel 2.0.0), standalone with this 
> modem for ppp connection also (ppp works fine with this modem).
> 
> Please help me newbie. I tried out efax(only software with which I can 
> receive class 1 fax) , then hylafax, then mgetty+sendfax. I got really 
> frustrated!!
> 
> Henry H Lu
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/3171/
> 
> 


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