Modem gives error

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In article <m0xDaZi-0000kAC@mobile.greenie.muc.de>
gert@greenie.muc.de writes:

>It's one of the new "all shiny outside and crap inside" Rockwell modems,
>which doesn't have any usable fax interface anymore :-(

Well, as the proud owner of one of those new "all shiny outside and
crap inside" Rockwell modems, I take offense at your use of the word
"usable". See below.

>The Class 1 fax interface is not supported by mgetty, but you might want
>to give "efax" or "hylafax" a try. (Class 1 timing is very difficult to
>do on a loaded unix system, but both programs work well on a lightly loaded
>machine with only one modem).

I have a lightly-loaded Linux box, and efax works just fine with my
Class 1 Rockwell-inside modem. So, this modem is as "usable" as any
for me.

And just for kicks, I took a peek at the efax code for handling Class 1
modems, and it looks fairly straightforward. So, anyone out there up for
hacking mgetty so that it, too, can handle Class 1? I'd do it myself,
but I just don't have the cycles right now.

efax is able to spawn getty if it detects an other-than-fax call, as
long as getty realizes that the modem is already off-hook. Can vgetty
be invoked in this way? I'd like to have efax running as a daemon, and
have it spawn vgetty to catch voice/data calls. Will this require a hack
of vgetty to get it to work?

The cleanest solution in my book is to have mgetty support Class 1.
Anyone out there willing to take this on?

Cheers,

Roger
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