[CUBE] Modem woes continued

[Chip Everts]

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Good luck,
Chip

On May 16, 2004, at 11:21 AM, Jonathan Bauer wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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