Hi. Now that I have incoming/outgoing faxes seemingly working consistently (using USR Faxmodem in 2.0 and still not seeing Phase B errors as of yet), I wanted to add distinctive ring support. Since this is the same line i use for voicecalls in and out of my place, I wanted to have distinctive ring so that incoming calls that i designate as being fax only (i.e. RING2) will be the only ones faxgetty answers. I have searched throughout google, hylafax pages, etc., but there doesn't seem to be a clear answer how to do this. It appears that setting up RingVoice woudl simply start a call to vgetty which I don't want.  Do I just set up RingFax and leave everything else blank? Thanks in advance. Sunil p.s.  This is really not clear from the documentation so far (watch me eat my words as someone shoots back a _link_!!!) ____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________   To subscribe/unsubscribe, click http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi  On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it < /dev/null   *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it *

I wanted to add distinctive ring support. Since this is the same line i use for voicecalls in and out of my place, I wanted to have distinctive ring so that incoming calls that i designate as being fax only (i.e. RING2) will be the only ones faxgetty answers. I have searched throughout google, hylafax pages, etc., but there doesn't seem to be a clear answer how to do this. It appears that setting up RingVoice woudl simply start a call to vgetty which I don't want.  Do I just set up RingFax and leave everything else blank? If what you are asking is how do I get faxgetty to answer the phone for fax calls ( RING2 ), and not answer the phone for voice calls ( RING1 ) because my answering machine on the same line is going to pick those up , then yes, you set RingFax to RING2, and leave everything else blank. If you're wanting to do voice-mail-y stuff with voice capable modems, then you need to also set RingVoice, and do some vgetty magic that I am not personally familiar with, and which isn't documented the best of any task in the world... Cheers,

If what you are asking is how do I get faxgetty to answer the phone for fax calls ( RING2 ), and not answer the phone for voice calls ( RING1 ) because my answering machine on the same line is going to pick those up , then yes, you set RingFax to RING2, and leave everything else blank. If you're wanting to do voice-mail-y stuff with voice capable modems, then you need to also set RingVoice, and do some vgetty magic that I am not personally familiar with, and which isn't documented the best of any task in the world... Thanks!  I definitely wanted to only deal with fax only, so what you suggest is the answer. On the other hand, I am having a hell of a time setting my USR faxmodem so that distinctive ring is turned on.  I read the documentation and supposidly ATS41=1 should do the trick.  However, this simply causes an error whenever I try to give the command.  I figured I would then save it in vram, but this is just not working. Any clues? Sunil ____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________   To subscribe/unsubscribe, click http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi  On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it < /dev/null   *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it *

On the other hand, I am having a hell of a time setting my USR faxmodem so that distinctive ring is turned on.  I read the documentation and supposidly ATS41=1 should do the trick.  However, this simply causes an error whenever I try to give the command.  I figured I would then save it in vram, but this is just not working. Any clues? What *exactly* is the modem again?  Tell us everything written on the sticker that looks like a model number, and you could throw in the output of probemodem, too (I *think* that dumps all the ATI strings...) Cheers,

What *exactly* is the modem again?  Tell us everything written on the sticker that looks like a model number, and you could throw in the output of probemodem, too (I *think* that dumps all the ATI strings...) The modem is a USR v.92 faxmodem (5686e), which has Caller ID and Distinctive Ring support. I just ordered distinctive ring today and it will be turned on (from my phone company) around 3pm or so. In order to get things ready, I set up register 41 which is used by my modem to enable distinctive ring. Now, whenever a ring on my voicenumber comes up, it is indicated as RING A (I tested this when using a terminal program). However, though I inserted in my config: RingFax: RING B And then restarted hylafax + faxgetty, Faxgetty is still answering even though the logs show the incoming line to be for RING A . This is odd? Any clues? Sunil p.s.  I would think that irregardless of distinctive ring actually being on the line, the fact that my modem returns RING A and that hylafax config is set up for the string RING B should stop faxgetty from answering, right? ____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________   To subscribe/unsubscribe, click http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi  On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it < /dev/null   *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it *

On the other hand, I am having a hell of a time setting my USR faxmodem so that distinctive ring is turned on.  I read the documentation and supposidly ATS41=1 should do the trick.  However, this simply causes an error whenever I try to give the command.  I figured I would then save it in vram, but this is just not working. Any clues? What *exactly* is the modem again?  Tell us everything written on the sticker that looks like a model number, and you could throw in the output of probemodem, too (I *think* that dumps all the ATI strings...) Nah, don't bother. I just checked the Quick Tech Ref from USR, and you're right, you should be doing the right thing. You may have to call tech support.  One of the ATI commands should explicitly say Distinctive Ring . Cheers,