timeout on dialing

[tyche at ica.net]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 13:30, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:44 -0500, tyche at ica.net wrote:
> > how does one increase the timeout on dialing in sendfax?
> > i am trying to send a fax, the fax on the other rings 4 times,
> > handshaking is started, then sendfax disconnects with an error 10. (no
> > carrier). this is iritating.
>
> This isn't sendfax doing this, it's your modem.  You need to tell your
> modem to wait for more rings.  This is one of the "AT" commands (I don't
> remember which it is...look it up).  Add that command to the modem init
> string for sendfax.

will look it up. got the book for it somewhere

> > also using the network configuration utiltity from redhat, my internet
> > dialer dies from inactivity while i am reading a webpage. how to stop
> > this.
>
> Increase the hangup timeout and enable the "Restart if connection fails"
> options in the "Advanced" tab.  I don't use dialup myself, but these
> seem to be the most likely things to try.
>
thanks, will give it a try.