Distinctive Ringing

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Hardware:  USR Sportster Vi 33.6 external modem

Software:
Linux Fallon.classyad.com 2.2.10 #5 Sun Jun 20 00:53:23 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
RedHat Linux v6.0
mgetty-voice-1.1.14-8
mgetty-1.1.14-8

I have installed Ameritech's (Michigan, USA) distinctive
ring service on my sole POTS line.  The idea is to
receive voice on one ring/number combination and
data/fax on the other.  I want my conventional answering
machine to handle the voice part, not vgetty. Despite
several attempts at defining ring_type and rings
in the voice.conf file, I have been unsuccesful in
discriminating between calls received with one ring type
vs the other.  The modem either always answers or
ignores incoming calls, irrespective of the ring_type.


My Sportster vi 33.4 has some kind of support for
distinctive ringing, but only god knows what setting
S41=1 really does -- nobody at 3com could/would tell me.

While I'm sure this must have been covered in the archives
previously, my searches of them for distinctive ringing 
always turn up empty.

Marc Zuckman
marc@fallon.classyad.com