Feature request for vgetty

Gernot Zander (hifi@gmx.de)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:58:32 +0200


Hi,

in de.alt.comm.mgetty Marc Eberhard <marc@athene.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> > >The modem mustn't pick up the line without a ring signal coming in
> > >from the telco line. Only exception is a dialout by the modem itself.
> > >Since this behaviour is required by the regulations, all approved
> > >modems for Germany will answer with ERROR to your request to pick up
> > >the line after the phone has stopped ringing.
> > 
> > That's not true. I've just tested it (killall -USR1 vgetty on a line
> > which didn't ring, and the modem picks up and tries to answer the dial
> > tone [Elsa 56k]), and I'd never recognized this behaviour.

> Is this an export version of the Elsa or one especially for Germany?

ati6
MicroLink 33.6TQV

OK
ati3
Ver. 1.26 vom 18.07.97

OK
ata
<picks up and after 60s)NO CARRIER

> Do you use the firmware version for Germany or for the US? Did you
> set the country code to Germany or is it set to US? This is in any
> case very interesting. Does anybody know, if the regulations have
> changed lately?

There was always some chance to understand the regulations in
different ways... Most manufactures decided not to allow ATA without
RING, but not all did so. I think the checks were not too strict,
that's why many modems has commands to disable restrictions.

I have an old Acceex, with exact implementation of the restictions,
allowing ATA and ATD only if a phone (connectet to the F-jug) was
off hook, ELSA says in the manual, that their modem does the same,
but ATA/ATD works even without phone.

mfg.
Gernot

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