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From: gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: bug in UNIXpc phone manager?
Summary: It's your modem line!
Keywords: 3b1 unixpc pc7300
Message-ID: <519@limbic.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 89 15:36:17 GMT
References: <487@manta.pha.pa.us>
Reply-To: gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, NY
Lines: 33

In article <487@manta.pha.pa.us> brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes) writes:
>If you don't use the UNIXpc phone manager, hit 'n' now.

I used to...until the problem you describe :-)

>Occasionally I have had the telephone unit connected to my 3b1 ring,
>but when I pick up the handset, I get dead silence.
[Bunch of theories described]

The phone hardware in the UNIX-pc has no way of making a phone ring.  If
you are using the OBM (on-board modem), the problem is probably that
the phone is getting switched from line 1 to line 2.  I used to have
problems like this often when switching back and fourth between lines.
The phone status says the phone is connected to line 1 when it's really
connected to line 2.

Keep an eye out for this.  The best medicine is to switch back and fourth
twice after making calls or doing other things with the phone manager
which might connect the phone to the other line.

>-- 
>Brant Cheikes
>University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science
>brant@manta.pha.pa.us, brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, bpa!manta!brant

>Is it a known bug?

It is now :-)

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| Gil Kloepfer, Jr.
| ICUS Software Systems/Bowne Management Systems (depending on where I am)
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