list of supported modem ?

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Hi,

Paul McAvoy wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Gert Doering wrote:
> > >  Where can we find a complete list of modem / voice-modem supported
> > > by mgetty and/or vgetty ? and the status for the drivers that are in
> > > developement ?
> > 
> > mgetty: about everything that is reasonably well-behaved. If you want to
> > use fax, the modem has to support class 2 or class 2.0 fax commands.
> 
> I was wondering, I have a Hayes Accura K56 voice/fax, and when I send
> FCLASS=? it responds with '1,1.0'

It's one of the new crippleware modems that have no class 2/2.0 support
anymore.

> What are the differences between classes of fax modes, 

class 1 and 1.0 require very strict timing on the unix side - which is
hard to impossible to get right when you try to drive 4 modems on a
loaded 486. Class 2 and 2.0 offload the processing to the modem, which
poses more demand on the brains of the vendor, but you can very easily run
16 class 2.0 fax modems *in a reliable way* on a normal Linux machine...

> and would mgetty
> ever support my modem for faxing?

Most likely not.

> The sticker on the side of the box said "Supported Platforms: Windows 95,
> Windows NT 4.0, or better", so clearly Linux was a supported platform.

It seems Hayes is now just one of the "get a Rockwell chipset, build a
case, sell their junk as `we have our own modem series'" company...

gert
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