ZyXEL Elite 2864ID problems sending fax from voice mode

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:03:07 +0200


Hi,

Oliver Sturm wrote:
> I have a problem sending a fax with the shell command SENDFAX when I was
> previously in voice-mode. I noticed in the logfile that vgetty tries to
> send ATD to the modem (to start resynchronisation, I suppose), but the
> modem answers ERROR.
> 
> Is this because ATD without a number is disabled in the german version
> of this modem? (Taken from the manual) If so, is there any other command
> to accomplish the same? 

ATD1 might work (but maybe not if the modem vendor is brain dead enough).

> Why doesn't ATO1 work for this task?

Because there is no data connection that you can return to (what ATO
does).

gert
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