Flashing light on USR 56K ?

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Hi,

On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 09:09:13PM -0500, hsilver@pyx.net wrote:
> When my USR 56K external fax/modem is idling in "waiting" mode,
> the ARQ/FAX light flashes off and then on about one cycle per second.
> I'm curious as to what flag setting is causing it and if I can set that 
> flag off yet leave all the other current settings alone (since everything
> seems to be working well) and simply not cycle the light itself on and
> off. 

There are two possible reasons why this is flashing:

 - to show that the modem is in "fax/data" mode (previous mgetty versions
   did the modem initialization slightly different, especially if vgetty
   comes into play, so that *might* cause different behaviour)

 - some modems have a light that can be set by software, to show "message
   waiting".

I'd try to find out what exactly the meaning of this LED is, and whether
it can be controlled by software - if yes, one can add the appropriate
command to "init-chat" (or "post-init-chat"), if no, bad luck...

gert
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