[CUBE] Modem woes continued

[Jonathan Bauer]

Thank you, Riba.

And it looks like you are exactly right. On send fax, it just fails, 
exactly if there were no dial tone. Then, I tried calling into the fax 
number, and although pagesender tried to answer, it did not pick up and 
there was no fax tone. I took a look at the log and found a bunch of 
errors, including:

efax: 12:56 Error: abnormal termination (code 1)
efax: 12:56 Error: Call Placement and Termination:
efax: 12:56 Error:   Ring Detect without successful handshake
efax: 12:56 Error: unable to answer call
efax: 12:56 command  "Q0V1"
efax: 12:56 waiting 2.0 s
efax: 12:56 .889 [<CR><LF>OK<CR><LF>]
efax: 12:56 response "OK"
efax: 12:57 command  "Z"
efax: 12:57 waiting 5.0 s
efax: 12:57 .154 [<CR><LF>OK<CR><LF>]
efax: 12:57 response "OK"
efax: 12:57 release exclusive use
efax: 12:57 done, returning 3 (invalid modem response)

The only good of this is that email attachments seem to be making 
faxing obsolete except for a few dinosaurs that I still have to deal 
with.

I'll just buy a cheap fax machine and be done with this.

Thanks again,

Jonathan

On May 16, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Riba wrote:

>> Does anyone know of a freeware utility to test/reset the Cube's 
>> internal modem? I tried the hardware test CD (for the testing part) 
>> but it doesn't get past the memory test.
>
> Good old zterm:
> http://homepage.mac.com/dalverson/zterm/
>
> Open it up, set the appropriate port, and enter "ATZ" + Enter, you 
> should get "OK" as an response. However, when your modem gets fried by 
> a line surge, it usually still responds to the commands - the problem 
> is that it cannot connect because it is not the logic part that gets 
> damaged, but the circuitry that interfaces with the analog phone line, 
> and there is no more connection there. Modem basically acts as if the 
> phone cable is unplugged.