[vox-tech] Mgetty-fax problems

[Henry House]

I have just installed a new modem (Best Data external V92 on ttyS1 via a
plain old serial cable) and am attempting to use it to receive faxes. (This
has previously worked for me on this machine with a different modem.) The
host machine (Debian) has mgetty-fax installed and configured in
/etc/inittab to listen to /dev/ttyS1: 

	s1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1

just as shown in the documentation. The modem answers when I send a test fax
and accepts transmission. But, the fax data just go into the void; mgetty
does not save any G3 files. The log file shows:


03/28 12:09:53 yS1  mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.31-Jul24
03/28 12:09:53 yS1  check for lockfiles
03/28 12:09:53 yS1  locking the line
03/28 12:09:54 yS1  lowering DTR to reset Modem
03/28 12:09:55 yS1  send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d]
03/28 12:09:55 yS1  waiting for ``OK'' ** found **
03/28 12:09:55 yS1  send: AT[0d]
03/28 12:09:55 yS1  waiting for ``OK'' ** found **
03/28 12:09:55 yS1  mdm_send: 'ATI'
03/28 12:09:55 yS1  Generic Rockwell modem (56000)
03/28 12:09:55 yS1  mdm_send: 'ATI3'
03/28 12:09:56 yS1  mdm_send: 'ATI4'
03/28 12:09:56 yS1  additional info: 'Smart One 56SX92-SCM'
03/28 12:09:56 yS1  modem quirks: 0004
03/28 12:09:56 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=2' -> ERROR
03/28 12:09:56 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=2.0' -> ERROR
03/28 12:09:56 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=2' -> ERROR
03/28 12:09:56 yS1  waiting...
03/28 12:13:00 yS1  wfr: waiting for ``RING''
03/28 12:13:00 yS1  send: ATA[0d]
03/28 12:13:00 yS1  waiting for ``CONNECT''
03/28 12:14:00 yS1  found action string: ``NO CARRIER''
03/28 12:14:00 ##### failed A_FAIL dev=ttyS1, pid=414, caller='none', conn='', name=''

--
03/28 12:14:00 yS1  mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.31-Jul24
03/28 12:14:00 yS1  check for lockfiles
03/28 12:14:00 yS1  locking the line
03/28 12:14:00 yS1  lowering DTR to reset Modem
03/28 12:14:01 yS1  send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d]
03/28 12:14:01 yS1  waiting for ``OK'' ** found **
03/28 12:14:01 yS1  send: AT[0d]
03/28 12:14:01 yS1  waiting for ``OK'' ** found **
03/28 12:14:02 yS1  mdm_send: 'ATI'
03/28 12:14:02 yS1  Generic Rockwell modem (56000)
03/28 12:14:02 yS1  mdm_send: 'ATI3'
03/28 12:14:02 yS1  mdm_send: 'ATI4'
03/28 12:14:02 yS1  additional info: 'Smart One 56SX92-SCM'
03/28 12:14:02 yS1  modem quirks: 0004
03/28 12:14:02 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=2' -> ERROR
03/28 12:14:02 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=2.0' -> ERROR
03/28 12:14:02 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=2' -> ERROR
03/28 12:14:02 yS1  waiting...
03/28 13:14:02 yS1  checking if modem is still alive
03/28 13:14:02 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT' -> OK
03/28 13:14:03 yS1  waiting...

(/var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyS1.log.1)

My initial guess is that I just have a crappy modem and should try a
different one. Does anyone have any other ideas?

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