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- From: ronald.mendoza@csus.edu (Ronald Mendoza)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Toshiba Tecra 700CT and PC-Card faxing problem
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- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 15:40:16 GMT
- Organization: California State University Sacramento
- Message-ID: <31726da1.3688580@news.csus.edu>
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- leong@actrix.gen.nz (Lim Leong) wrote:
-
- >Hi There,
- >
- >I am posting this message on behalf of my father who lives in
- >Malaysia.
- >
- >I bought a USR modem 28.8 PC-Card very recently. I got it working
- >under a Toshiba Tecra 700 CT and Win95 for data communication using
- >Win95 PPP. However, I could not get it to work with most brand of fax
- >machines. I have tried faxing using WinFaxPro 7.0 and 7.0.2. The
- >symptoms are the fax transmission will usually fail a brief period of
- >handshaking attempt.
- >
- >I also have a New Media 14.4K PC-Card fax-modem which I managed to get
- >it to work on one way faxing : from the 700CT laptop to a Sharp fax
- >machine. However, I could not get it to work for receiving faxes from
- >the Sharp fax machine.
- >
- >I have also borrowed a Hayes Optima 14.4K PC-Card modem to try out.
- >The problem is the same as the USR modem, cannot fax at all.
- >
- >I really think the problem lies in the Tecra 700CT as three separate
- >PC-Card all fail on the same laptop. Has anyone experienced the same
- >problem? Is there a workaround ...?
- >
- >Hardware and Software Information:
- >- Toshiba Tecra 700CT with 16Meg Ram
- >- Win95
- >- USR Sportster 28.8K PC-Card Modem (fail to fax completely )
- >- New Media 14.4K PC-Card Modem (can fax but can receive incoming fax)
- >- Hayes Optima 14.4K PC-Card (fail to fax completely)
- >- WinFaxPro 7.0.2
- >
- >
- >Please reply via email.
- >
- >TIA,
- >Lim Leong
- >leong@actrix.gen.nz
-
- I would probably lay blame on WinFaxPro. I have a T700CT and a
- Megahertz XJEM3288 (combo ethernet/28.8), and have successfully sent
- and received faxes using Microsoft Fax.
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