Supra 288/336 Data/Fax Receive problems

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:57:32 +0200


Hi,

Larry M. Bateman wrote:
> I have a Supra 288 Modem, which will receive data calls
> fine, but will give a "NO CARRIER" response sometime
> after the "ATA" command is given.  If I tweek the source code
> to leave the modem in the class 2 setting (setting MQ_NEED2),
> then the modem will receive faxes, but respond "NO CARRIER"
> to incoming data calls.  The logs show no other problems,
> and I've tried too many other experiments to emunerate.
> I'm running mgetty 1.1.14.

Hmmm, sounds like one of those modems that can't properly distinguish
between incoming fax and data calls.  I am somewhat surprised, because
Supra has gotten this *right* in the past.

Did you ask Supra about it?  Maybe there is some magic S-Register...

gert

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