[ale] Oddly Slow Internal Modem

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at attbi.com
Mon Oct 28 15:09:02 EST 2002


Looks like it's not just minicom - HylaFax's faxsetup seems to time out
when it gets to the part where it's trying to determine the best speed
for talking to the modem...I know the device name is correct...

- Jeff

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 14:52, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I have a Gentoo 1.4rc1 P/100 machine set up here with an ISA-bus US
> faxmodem inside.  When I run minicom, I can talk to the modem and it
> talks back, but at an excruciatingly slow speed.  For example, when
> minicom fires up, it puts up its "Initializing Modem" box, that goes
> away like normal, then it lands in its comm mode.  Minicom then tries to
> send the modem the string 
> 
> AT S7=45 S0=0 L1 V1 X4 &c1 E1 Q0
> 
> It takes about 15 seconds for the first half of that string to echo back
> and another 15 for most of the rest of it, then another 10 or so for it
> to complete with a carriage return.  I don't seem to get an "OK" back
> from that, but if I type something in like "at+fclass=?" it takes about
> 15 seconds to get an echo and another 15 to get a response.
> 
> I looked through dmesg and found that ttyS00 (COM1) and ttyS02 (COM3,
> the modem) appeared to both be set to IRQ 4, so, in the interest of
> simplicity, I simply disabled COM1 in the BIOS.  However, this didn't
> solve the problem of the unusual lag .
> 
> Any ideas as to what's going on here?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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