sendfax problem : +FHS:51 and 2nd page fails

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 22:02:39 +0200


Hi,

sorry for not responding more quickly.  I just had too much work to do.

On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 11:24:27AM +0200, Eric DE VITO wrote:
> First I want to say that I fixed several problems thanks to the
> documentations. I have a USR Robotics Message PLus 56K/V90. So I used
> #define USR_Robotics, then found the ignore-carrier yes in
> sendfax.config.

Yes, those two seem to be needed for the cheap USR ones.

> Then I tried to send faxes to several destinations. It worked right for
> some of them (local), harder for others (France->USA) - but it finally
> wrked, and I now failed for the last one :-( (France-Germany).

International calls can put quite some strain on a fax modem's implementation
(bad line quality, delays, etc.).

> 09/28 23:56:17 yS0   input: got [0a]
> 09/28 23:56:31 yS0  page complete, 32354 bytes sent
> 09/28 23:56:31 yS0  sending DLE ','
> 09/28 23:56:41 yS0  connection hangup: '+FHS:51'
> 09/28 23:56:41 yS0   (RSPREC error)

I'm not really sure what a RSPREC error is.  But it's something like "we
couldn't negotiate what we are going to do now".  I've only seen it in USR
Sportsters so far, so it seems to be a firmware issue.

> It sends the first page, then fails to the second.
> I saw the same king of problems in the mailing-list, but with a slightly
> fidderent error:
> +FHS:54 , No response to EOP repeated 3 times.

That's a different one.  This one just means "there was a transmission
error and the other end hung up, not sending any feedback at the end of
the page".  (ALL end-of-page errors are +FHS:5<x>, because "5" means
"end-of-page error", but the different numbers signal completely different
errors).

> So what's up doc please ?

No idea.  But the USR Sportsters are known to have a poor fax firmware.

gert
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