fax receive script ?

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Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> looks good.  So, could everybody having problems going voice->fax/data
> please try this patch and report back?
>
> thanks,
>
> gert
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 10:06:05AM -0400, dima@localhost.localdomain wrote:
> >
> > Here comes the diff for how I patched ../voice/vgetty/answer.c
> > to enable my Rockwell get fax/data properly after being in voice mode.
> > Sorry it contains the comment I put in for myself.
> >
> > The idea is that you play with autodetection only if answer_mode
> > is undecided before, i.e it is ANSWER_DATA | ANSWER_FAX .
> > If answer_mode is already decided (i.e ANSWER_FAX or ANSWER_DATA only)
> > then the code switches off autodetection (+FAA=0) so +FCLASS state cannot
> > be played with.
> >
> > With my modem incoming fax always led to the ANSWER_FAX (only) mode
> > to be set, so setting +FCLASS=0 led to failed fax reception.
> >
> > I should note, that (if I remember correctly) forcing autodetection
> > in config file (so that everything goes through ANSWER_DATA | ANSWER_FAX
> > branch) still leads on my modem to fax failure. Which seems to mean that
> > it not only cannot autodetect in +FCLASS=2 mode, but cannot autodetect
> > at all after being in voice mode. Well ... it works fine in most of other
> > aspects.
> >
> >
> >                       Regards, Dmitri Pogosyan
> >
> > ------------------ answer.diff ---------------------
> > --- answer_orig.c     Sat Jul 24 17:26:50 1999
> > +++ answer_new.c      Sun Oct 10 00:01:23 1999
> > @@ -35,12 +35,11 @@
> >       if (modem_type == Mt_class2)
> >            {
> >            bit_order = 0;
> > -       /* following the specs, we should go to +FCLASS=2;+FAA=1, but
> > -        * there is a fair number of Rockwell modems that can't do
> > -        * data calls if in that mode - must go to +FCLASS=0;+FAA=1 -
> > -        * but yet other modems NEED class 2, so use modem_quirks...
> > -        */
> > -          fax_mode = ( modem_quirks & MQ_NEED2 ) ? "2": "0";
> > +       /* The patch here is in wrong place it goes only
> > +        * if the asnwer mode is ANSWER_DATA | ANSWER_FAX,
> > +        * it is wrong if it is only ANSWER_FAX. I moved it
> > +       */
> > +          fax_mode = "2";
> >            };
> >
> >       if (modem_type == Mt_class2_0)
> > @@ -64,6 +63,15 @@
> >            case ANSWER_DATA | ANSWER_FAX:
> >                 lprintf(L_JUNK, "%s: trying data and fax connection",
> >                  program_name);
> > +
> > +            /* Here were we moved the patch for class 2 modems:
> > +             * following the specs, we are in +FCLASS=2;+FAA=1, but
> > +             * there is a fair number of Rockwell modems that can't do
> > +             * data calls if in that mode - must go to +FCLASS=0;+FAA=1 -
> > +             * but yet other modems NEED class 2, so use modem_quirks...
> > +            */
> > +                    if (modem_type == Mt_class2)
> > +                 fax_mode = ( modem_quirks & MQ_NEED2 ) ? "2": "0";
> >
> >                 if (voice_switch_to_data_fax(fax_mode) == FAIL)
> >                      return(FAIL);
> >
> >
>
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> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
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Hi,

After weeks of re-writing config files and blindly hacking sources, It finally
works!
I had some problems getting the above patch to apply, so I hacked it in by hand
and all went well, and I can now recieve voice or fax without a glitch.

My compliments to the authors, and thanks to all,
 -brent