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From: ttolh@shell.portal.com (Todd N Tolhurst)
Subject: Re: Zyxel Distinctive Ring
Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:25:10 GMT

In article <C0H1n0.KF9@cs.psu.edu> fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
>In article <C0GzCF.GK@unix.portal.com> ttolh@shell.portal.com (Todd N Tolhurst) writes:
>|the ability of the modem to report *which* ring pattern
>|was detected.
>|
>|Is there a way to get the modem to report this, or might Zyxel consider
>|adding this function?
>
>I asked about adding this; they said they were evaluating the possibility.
>
>  Bill

Hmmm... I hope they look favorably on the idea.  I'd like to use the
ability to distinguish which line the incoming call is on in order
to make the voice/fax/data decision.

  Todd
From: prisoner@village.freeside.com (The Prisoner)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Digicom Scout+ plug and play??!
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:08:18 GMT
Organization: The Village

forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis ) writes:
>
> Assuming you use the Qmodem Lite software included with the Digicom Scout+ 
> modem (& using the Scout+ prewritten configuration), are you supposed to be 
> able to pretty much be able to install the board and go? I haven't had any 
> luck. After checking the modem to make sure it's set for com port 2, IRQ 3, 
> (switches 1&3 on), I placed it in the slot where my 2400 modem had 
> cheerfully plugged away for years. When I start QModem, it doesn't seem to 
> be intializing the modem, though it prints a string claiming it does. There 
> isn't an "&F" printed (or anything else), nor an OK in response, and the 
> modem won't accept any commands. The modem is on a Zeos 386SX 20.
> 
> Eric Forbis      forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu

   I had a problem with Qmodem-Light also.. It crashed my system when I tried to
use its quick install for my Scout+.   So I played with it and made up my own
init string and it worked almost perfect.  I then tried out the REAL Qmodem and
it works perfectly!  I used the 'Digicom blah blah (v23bis)' quick install and
it works!! ..  I dont think the modem is the problem.

  prisoner



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From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Can I upgrade a 16450 uart to a 16550a?
Date: 13 Jan 93 00:20:01 GMT

jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham) writes:

>In article <2To7wB1w165w@halcyon.com> puma writes:

>> jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham) writes:
>> > 
>> > usually (and there are exceptions), sales droids don't have a clue about
>> > these things.  the guy you talked to probably doesn't know the
>> > difference between a UART and a toaster, and just pulled out a term
>> > (VLSI) that he'd heard in the past somewhere.  :-)

>> He likely was correct, many systems don't use "real" UARTS, they use
>> a VLSI chip that is programmed to emulate the uarts and other parts.

>yes, but the original poster said specifically that this chip *IS* a
>16450.  not a clone in a multi-function VLSI chip, a 16450, period.

OK. I give up. Let's say that his Dell 325D has a 16450 ...

>the sales droid said it was a VLSI, while the original poster had
>already determined it to be a 16450 (I'm assuming he knows how to read
>the identification off a chip).

.... and the Dell representative wasn't fully correct and Dell did in
fact make some Dell 325D's 16450 UARTs and some with VLSI or
{INTEGRATED:built-in} chips which is what the User's Guide for my
Dell 325D says it has. 

>if I look at a chip, and the type designation on the label says it's
>a 16450 (especially if it's in the familiar 40-pin DIP package), while
>a sales droid tells me it's something else, my visual inspection of the
>chip wins.  sorry.

Are you telling us that you have opened up the original poster's
Dell 325D and seen a 16450 chip? I've opened up mine and it doesn't.

Note that the original poster hasn't ever told us *how* he knows
that his Dell 325D has the 16450 chips.... 

>> *flame on* - Why bother talking with your manufacturer who "doesn't
>> have a clue," when you can talk with an equally clueless person on
>> the net.  
>> *flame off*
>
>flame away all you want, but it doesn't change the wording of the data
>sheets I've got sitting right here in front of me.  the question asked
>was if the 16450 could be replaced with a 16550.  the answer is yes,
>it can.  the data sheets tell us we can do this.  I've done it.  others
>have also done it.  it works.  I guess National Semiconductor is
>clueless, too?

Please note there are two subjects here. One is about 164550 UARTs
and whether they can be replaced with 16550; the answer to this is
yes. The other is whether the Dell 325D has 16450 UARTs. In my case,
the answer *can* be *no* because my Dell 325D doesn't have one; I
had to put in a card with 16550 UARTs on it. 

I have no way of knowing what kind of Dell 325D the original poster
has because I can't see it with my own two eyes, so I'll just say
that *if* it has 16450 UARTs *and* they aren't soldered in, then
it's quite reasonable to think about taking them out and replacing
them with 16550 UARTs. 

Dave

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Xref: sparky comp.dcom.modems:19241 biz.comp.telebit:1136
From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,biz.comp.telebit
Subject: Re: Detecting TurboPEP
Date: 10 Jan 1993 20:14:00 GMT
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu

Others said:
# > 	Set S191=6 (Allow V.42bis compression, but not LZ)
# > 
# > If you connect with a T2500 (TB+, et. al.) you won't get compression.
# > If you connect with a WorldBlazer, you'll get compression (thus returned
# > with COMP in your CONNECT message).

Err,
I must be doing something wrong, then. If I set s191=6, my wb will not
PEP connect to the ?blazer at the far end. It will connect in v.32,
though.

So what's going on? Is s180,181, or 190 somehow involved?

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: jgreco@solaria.mil.wi.us (Joe Greco)
Subject: Re: Telemate speed problems
Organization: Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:21:26 GMT

In comp.dcom.modems article <1993Jan1.003754.22952@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) wrote:
:In <1992Dec31.102222.4714@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> jeroenp@rulfc1.LeidenUniv.nl (Jeroen W. Pluimers) writes:
:
:>In article <1992Dec30.203011.3674@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes:
:>>Having just heard about Telemate (v3.10), I tried it, and found that I
:>>liked the features much better than telix, procomm, or any others I've
:>>seen, BUUUUT -- It has one major problem, which, to me, renders it useless.

:Anyone interested in this subject even?  Or am I the only one who wants
:all the speed I can get? :-)

Well, I've never really had any problems lately, but that's because I've
been using GSZ for my file transfers.  I hadn't really noticed anything
horrible about Telemate's speed except that it can't keep up with file
transfers.  It also lags somewhat on my XT, not that it's a real problem....
It would be great if they could optimize Telemate - my first impression of
it was (and still is) "WOW."  Maybe it's just a matter of fine-tuning their
"multiprocessing' code, or their windowing software.

Whatever it is, I'd like to see it fixed.  However I'll use it even if they
don't.  But that's because I don't use IBM's heavily enough to worry about it.

... Joe

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Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI			   414/321-9287
From: uprao@mcl.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: USR DEAL??? Is this valid???
Date: 12 Jan 93 22:34:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcl.uprao.726878056
Reply-To: uprao@mcl.ucsb.edu
Organization: U.C. Santa Barbara


 Its false since there is no Dual Standard 14.4k w/ fax, as far as I know.
The 16.8k DS's have fax, but not the earlier.

 Probably a big scam, why wouldn't they accept credit cards or COD...
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               spit in Sightblinders eye on the Last Day."  -- Wheel of Time.
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: rodney@tyrell.tynet.sub.org (Rodney Volz)
Subject: Re: ZyXEL voice and flow control
Keywords: ZyXEL voice flow control
Organization: Tyrell, Stuttgart (FRG)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:13:49 GMT

In article <2B4AF74B.602A@telly.on.ca> gvb@telly.on.ca (George VandeBunte) writes:
>>>1.) Proper RTS/CTS flowcontrol in voice mode
>
>When one is sending voice, it is prudent to read information from
>the DCE (modem) since the modem will be decoding the DTMF buttons pushed.
>The information is shielded by <dle>.  Thus a program should look
>for <dle> shielded xoff, xon, 0, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,#,*,c(t-30 signal),
>b(busy),
>or <etx>, VCON.  This is one of the nice features of the voice, that
>you can be decoding DTMF information both on sending and receiving
>voice.

My software already reads tty input while in voice transmission mode.
However, I don't think it's my responsibility to cope with flow control
"manually". There are things like tty drivers in the real world (tm).

>>>4.) Adjustable volume gain in voice mode
> 
> Unfortunately, the speaker/ amp in the modem is not a 50 watt job , so I am
> not sure this will solve the voice volume. Of course, the voice files
> can be played on the pc speaker etc also-- but same problem. You get a nice
> volume listening in on an extension phone/ speakerphone .  The speaker got
> bigger a few months ago-- I think they are trying in this area.

From the day I bought the modem, I am using an external speaker, and
the volume is fine. What I'd like to be able to change is the volume
when sending on the phone line. I still think it wouldn't be
unreasonable to sacrify a register for this.

Thanks for your attention.
-Rodney Volz
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From: scottd@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: ZyXEL as answering machine?
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:09:24 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

I recently got a U-1496E which I am very happy with.
Someone posted recently an article detailing the voice mode capabilities.
I have read it thoroughly but any attempts to put it into practice have been
complete failures.

Could someone who has a working setup please send me instructions?

Don't assume too much knowledge, I am a complete newcomer to the world
of modems.

What I have tried so far :

Plugged a phone into the line jack.
(Using kermit)
at+fclass=8
at+vsm=2
at+vls=8
at+vrx

--------At this point all hell breaks loose - with garbage being sent to the screen.
--------The phone is still dead, so the garbage can't be coming from the phone.

Also, am I right in saying that <dle><dtx> can be sent from kermit by :
^\\16 and ^\\3 ?

And lastly, I am in th UK, hence my UK phone is plugged in via an adaptor.

Furthermore, my modem is plugged into a BT Renown system. (A kind of private
exchange).  The implications of this are that my modem and a phone have to be
plugged into a socket doubler to allow me to access an outside line.

ie  When I want to dial out, I lift the phone, press 'R' and then dial using
    the terminal (atdt.....) and replace the handset when the modem has taken
    over.

I can't press 'R' when the phone is plugged into the modem directly and I don't
know how to simulate pressing an 'R' from, for example, kermit.

I don't know if that is of any relevance.

Thanks for any help,

Scott.
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: jcd@vogon.att.com (Jack Dixon)
Subject: Re: ZyXEL voice and flow control
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:13:11 GMT

From article <028de479@p101.f701.n202.z1.fidonet.org>, by Zero_One@p101.f701.n202.z1.fidonet.org:
> 
>  > I believe this was stated in the voice-mode commands addendum to
>  > the
>  > original manual.  It does say that XON and XOFF should work.
> 
> If you look in the manual on page 15-4 it states that "Software
> XON/XOFF
> flow control is used."

Could someone explain WHY the designers decided not to allow the use
of hardware flow control when sending voice data?  Is this something
that will be changed in the near future?
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: bradcox@sitevax.gmu.edu (Dr. Brad Cox)
Subject: Help: Procomm/Windows <--> Unix
Keywords: Procomm, Windows, Unix, double space
Organization: George Mason Pgm on Social and Organizational Learning
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:15:32 GMT

A PC-based colleague needs help using ProComm for Windows to connect to a
Unix host.  He's trying to use Notepad to compose email messages and paste 
them into Unix Mail. The messages come out double-spaced, nomatter what 
we've tried.
 
We've tried all of the ProComm options (character translation tables)
but nothing we've tried affects translation during the paste command.
The paste brings in CR/LF line terminator characters. Unix keeps seeming
them as double line spaces.
 
I've tried working from the Unix end via stty, but that doesn't work
either. The best I could do disables the CR key altogether.
 
Surely this problem has a trivial solution. But I've been unable to find it.
If possible, reply by email, which I monitor more frequently than this group.


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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Can I upgrade a 16450 uart to a 16550a?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:29:39 GMT

I just purchased a high speed modem (14.4K from Boca) for my Dell
325D.  I was almost sure Dell would have put a good uart in the
machine, but it turns out it's only a 16450.  Naturally, I'm losing
char.s with high-speed transfers, especially with a loaded machine
(I'm running Linux --- a Unix clone).

Is it possible to upgrade the 16450 to a 16550a?  (I assume that will
help the problem; correct me if I'm wrong.)  

[I tried asking the representative a Dell, but, when he answer my
question of "What kind of uart is in the machine" with "You have a
VLSI chip," I gave up.]

Thanks in advance.

-Joel
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: mckeeveb@monashee.sfu.ca (Gumby - The unknown user)
Subject: Re: Differences between E and E+...
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:03:16 GMT

dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister) writes:

>mckeeveb@monashee.sfu.ca (Gumby - The unknown user) writes:

>> 
>> We're working on decoding the contents... maybe we'll be able to release an
>> 'upgrade ROM' to change at least some of the E's to E+'s...
>> 

>Why ot just ftp the E+ ROMs? They're available readily enough.
>try ftp.csie.nctu.edu.tw for starters - look in the "ZyXEL" directory.

I think you may have missed the point...

Yes, the E+ ROMs are freely available (I have an E+, I do burn my own).  What
we want to do, is to create a new ROM that will reprogram whatever is in the
EEPROM that makes an E an E and an E+ an E+.

In the end, we may/may not be able to pull this off.

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: Is 19.2K for ZyXel available yet?
Organization: iX-Redaktion
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:13:16 GMT


|> 19.2 is not available just yet.  We will release the the roms soon.
|> 
|> Tyrone Horton
|> (Zero One)
|> Tech Support
|> ZyXEL USA

Will they fit in all ZyXELs? 
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: ZyXEL 1496E+ won't answer a call
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 19:05:54 +1300
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)

sp@questor.org (Steve Pershing) writes:

> ZyXEL has some hidden registers for different countries.  As an example,
> we had a Japanese client who had the same problem.

Where can I find information on accessing these registers?

I have problems with ringback detection which were supposed to
have been cured in v5.04, and seem to have only been partially fixed.

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke)
Subject: Re: Why get _external_ Digicom Scout+ ???
Organization: Netcom
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 06:20:11 GMT

Eric Forbis (forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
: Does the Digicom Scout have problems on dirty lines? Does the Qmodem program 
: include the mail program OLX? 

The OLX offline reader is available from the Digicom BBS at
1-(408)-262-1412 or from ftp.rahul.net:/pub/wolfgang. Its not
included with the Qmodem program.


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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,biz.comp.telebit
From: dug@kd4nc.uucp (Doug Drye KD4NC)
Subject: Re: Detecting TurboPEP
Organization: KD4NC HAM Packet Radio Gateway
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 05:31:13 GMT

km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes:

>Is there a way to detect from the connect message, whether a WB
>has reached another WB with TurboPEP, as opposed to hitting a
>TB+ or T2500 with PEP. All the variations of X settings and 
>S59 seem to give me "FAST" one way or another.

I'm just another "hack" trying to determine the same thing, Ken..
not an expert.. but I could not find any way to do that from the
manuals and asking around... (no I didn't call telebit)...
The only thing I can suggest is to +++ the modem into command mode
then access S70 and S72 which are the transmit and receive
modulation rate... they change to reflect the higher line speed...
After I sweated over this for a while, I chose to ignore the
differences and use 38400 for ALL "FAST" connections on the worldblazer
and 19200 on the older trailblazers I'm using........ I have a uugetty
running (the PD on off the net).. that is fixed up (by a friend of mine)
to treat modems differently based on a config file on a per modem basis...
so this is pretty easy.... I plan to convert to taylor
UUCP to take care of using different rates and different result codes
on outgoing so I can optimize the throughput on uucp...

>In fact is there any way to detect the Telebit model of the remote
>modem, short of using the remote access capability (if it were
>enabled).

Nope.. not that I know of... the I0 "register request" at the local
modem is the only one I have seen...

Sorry to have negative info, but I was wondering  what you were trying
to accomplish, therefore the above description of how I'm getting around
the need to know if the connection is turbo-pep...

Doug


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From: tnixon@hayes.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: PPI EPROMS (Re: PPI repair charges)
Date: 7 Jan 93 10:56:04 EDT
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA

In article <1993Jan7.061457.15927@informix.com>, aland@informix.com
(Colonel Panic) writes: 

> In the case of my modem, they sent me a wholly different one, so the
> repair must not have been trivial...

Actually, there's no correlation between getting back a different 
modem and the difficulty of repairing yours.  Hayes, PPI, and 
several other companies insure a quick turnaround on repairs by 
having a pool of factory-refurbished, fully-tested modems ready to 
ship from the repair department.  When a modem comes in for repair, 
it goes into the queue to be refurbished, and one of those that has 
already been refurbished is sent back immediately.  You get quick 
turnaround whether your modem was completely fried or just had a 
switch set wrong, and a smooths out the peaks (e.g., when everybody 
in Florida sends their modem in for repair the same week after a 
series of thunderstorms).

The only exception to this is when a modem comes in with a corporate 
asset tag or something like that.  In that case, you at least get 
back your original cabinetry, because the repair department won't 
try to transfer the tag.

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: bergman@panix.com (Mark Bergman)
Subject: Re: Address/phone number for Forval America
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:04:01 GMT

In article <1ir8kcINN705@news.cerf.net> rathmann@nic.cerf.net (Raul Rathmann) writes:
>Could someone please give me the address and phone number of Forval America?
>
>Thanks - Raul
>rathmann@cerf.net
>

Techincal Support:			801-367-8251
Sales:					801-561-8080
Forval Link (BBS, PROM Upgrades):	801-561-0117
Fax:					801-561-8777

Forval America, Inc.
Modem Division
6985 So. Union Park Center
Suite 425
Midvale, UT 84047

I've got their internal modem, and I'm very happy with it,
except that the promised Fax and v.FAST upgrades aren't
ready YET!



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