Re: Faxing call discrimination

On Jun 21, 5:47 am, Haines Brown <bro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I wouild like to do occasional faxing, and after looking into it a
questoin remains.

I know of a modem card that works well under Linux, and would do this,
using mgetty:

-> DSL adapter -> NIC card
wall phone jack -> DSL filter |
-> PCI modem card -> phone

Any problems in this setup?

Yup. If you hang that DSL filter between the wall jack and the DSL
adaptor, then you filter out the DSL tones that the adaptor works
with, and you don't get DSL. Better to use a splitter between the wall
jack and the filter, like...

.----------------> DSL adapter -> NIC card
|
wall phone jack -==I
|
'-> DSL filter --> PCI modem card -> phone


A question remains. Do PCI modem cards do call discrimation? Back in
the '90s my Catseye card only rang the phone if the incoming call was
voice, and data was sent to the printer. I don't see call
discrimination mentioned in description of PCL modems.

Sorry, I can't help you there. IIUC, the only way that the modem can
perform call discrimination is to actually answer the phone and test
the audio for fax tones. That's more a driver/application software
issue than a modem firmware issue, I would imagine.



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