vgetty fails to switch to data ... solved !

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 13 May 1999 17:39:46 +0200


Hi,

On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Dmitry Pogosyan wrote:
> Well, we have nailed (knock the wood) the vgetty voice/fax/data switch problem
> in just a day ! This mailgroup is great. Thanks Gert, Mark, Roy, Bjoern !

Actually, thanks to Ray - I didn't think of that issue, so thanks for
pointing it out to me.

> So the problem really was that +FCLASS=0 should be enabled for
> our modems (Supra and ZOOM). The reason I got NO CARRIER on the first try
> was just the calling modem timed out - (default get carrier timeout - S7 -
> is 50 sec, with five 6 second rings to wait I was always dangerously close).

Yup...

[..]
> The permanent solution seems to be to propagate the knowledge of 'quirks'
> into voice part ? What do you think, Marc and Gert ?

*done* (for this one, most others are handled correctly anyway because the
code is shared better between "m" and "v"getty parts).

Will be in 1.1.21, or you can use the patch that I sent to Bjoern today.

gert
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