voice modem recomendation for vgetty

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Hi,

On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 10:14:48PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> > If you have reproducable problems with ELSA, please report them to me, and
> > I'll contact ELSA - they are pretty good concerning feedback.
> 
> ELSA is not that bad, but I hate things like this:
> 
>         * Adding ability to use either the new AT+IFC or the old AT\Q3
>         in Elsa, with dynamic adjustment in case of error. We now
>         try AT+IFC first. Reported by Steffen Klupsch, and fix
>         suggested by Gert. Simplified Elsa's internals. Reported to
>         work (eschmann@stud.uni-frankfurt.de).
> 
> One firmware has AT\Q3, one has AT+IFC=2,2.

I admit that this really annoyed me as well :) - their reasoning for this
is that the AT+IFC=2,2 command is a stanard (V.25ter/V.253) while AT\Q3 is
not, and that using standardized command sets is *good*.  I agree here.

What I do not like is that there's no easy way to find out whether the
modem can do \Q3 or +IFC=2,2 -- except trying AT+IFC=2,2, and if that
fails, fall back to \Q3.  (Which isn't too unreasonable, as it can be
expected that AT\Q3-ELSAs will become less and less popular over time).
It's ugly, though, having one unavoidable ERROR in the logs...

One could add a new modem_quirk, for people knowing that they have a
\Q3-ELSA... what do you think?

gert
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