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From: orthlieb@adobe.COM (Carl Orthlieb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Abaton Interfax Modem Problems
Message-ID: <12395@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 91 17:46:35 GMT
Reply-To: orthlieb@adobe.COM (Carl Orthlieb)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Lines: 34

Agghhh, this modem has created some severe hair pulling!
I just got my Interfax connected to my station and managed to fax out
a couple of test pages and now when I fax I get these strange errors 
on the console:

Software Version 2.0 (Warp6.4)
Mar 11 23:27:56 Workspace[275]: ...Ready
CS 03/11/91 23:30  0pg   0m 00s Software error. rm="                    " 
dial="9613769"
Mar 11 23:31:11 localhost login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyda, lh_,zx8~zx}}z}ky
CS 03/11/91 23:31  0pg   0m 00s Software error. rm="                    " 
dial="9613769"
CS 03/11/91 23:32  0pg   0m 00s Software error. rm="                    " 
dial="9613769"
CS 03/11/91 23:33  0pg   0m 00s Software error. rm="                    " 
dial="9613769"
!! Requested to exit.
Mar 11 23:34:53 localhost login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyda, W||k{}zx}z}ky||+

The faxes no longer seem to get delivered and an alert panel pops up with
'there is a error in your fax software'.  If I delete the fax modem in the
print manager and then reinstall it is seems to work again one more time
and then it's back to its old tricks.

Subquestion: I would like to use the fax modem as a fax and a modem on 
serial port A. So far this has not been possible.  I can fax on port A 
(except for these errors that are now showing up), switch the serial line 
to port B and use it as modem with kermit.  If I try to use it as a modem 
on port A I get the /dev/cua device busy link down error.  I checked for 
locks in /usr/spool/uucp/LCK but there aren't any.

Does anybody have a clue to what's going on? 

Thanks, Carl 8^)