Any experiences with USR Sportster Vi ?

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Hi,

Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> >> I've recently read an advertisement about "The new Sportster Vi".
> >> Price is DM 298 (~ $200). After grepping via  egrep -il 'st[ae]r( |)vi' *
> >> in this newsgroup it seems not to have been mentioned during the last
> >> fortnight. My questions are:
> >> 
> >> 1. Is somebody using the Sportster Vi successfully with mgetty?
> I'm not sure if we speak about the same model, but a few days ago I had to
> install a modem dial-in server with a bunch of sportster 28.8 modems.
> 
> Not only were the default settings lacking flow control, but also
> the ATA was broken. It returns ERROR contrary to the documentation.

Ohmygod :(

(I assume you got the german Telekom approved model. Some manufacturers
simply can't get this straigt -- ATA *is* allowed, but only while the
phone is ringing, not at arbitrary times).

> It would take up the line only in auto-answer-mode. (I know, one could 
> recompile mgetty with an answerstring of ATS0=1 instead of ATA, but I 
> consider this modem broken enough to give it back.) 

Reasonably. Let's show USR what we want.

gert


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