USR Sporster 28.8 / Sendfax setup

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"A month of sundays ago pg wrote:"
> 
> I am wondering if anyone has successfully set up the USR Sportster 28.8 to
> successfully send a fax.

It's true .. my USR Sportster Voice 33.6 does have trouble sending
faxes to some machines. However, I just use the USR/Megaherz 28.8
pcmcia modem that I have instead when that happens .. from my laptop,
of course. It works against those machines.

> I now here the modem dial out, and my fax machine, which has the phone
> number of xxx-yyyy , rings, and then goes into fax "receive" mode.
> Approximately 5 seconds later, the fax machine stops, and displays an error
> message.
> -----------------------------------
> The console now displays:
> /usr/bin/sendfax Failed to transmit 'f1.g3'
> Transmission error +FHNG:25  (DCS sent 3 times without response)
> command exit with status 12

Pass to fax experts!

Peter