[ale] Voice Modems

[William Fragakis]

Something about little-endian vs. big endian. We used to have a devil of
a time getting drivers for even simple stuff like pci video cards and
ata adapters back in the day. If you got anything, it cost twice as much
as the PC equivalent to pay for someone writing not only the driver but
also the firmware to make it play nice with the Mac pci slot.

I was about to suggest seeing if there are any Mac internal modems on
ebay but I have no idea if there would be linux drivers for them.

regards,
William

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 03:57 +0000, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Um. You are looking at plonking some multiport serial cards into a
> powermac. So far, every card I have tried in my G4 won't work. The pin
> outs on the mac stuff is "special". 
> 
> To get decent quality voice-capable modems, they will cost around $70
> each for internal and higher for external.
> 
> You will need to reevaluate the pricing and the use of the mac as the
> platform.
> 
> On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 20:06 -0400, Brian D. Pitts wrote:
> > Hi,
> >         I've been asked to set up a computer-based answering machine
> > for three phone lines. After a certain number of rings, the computer
> > should answer the phone, record any audio to a file, then email that
> > file. It looks like vgetty provides the basic capability I need to do
> > this (described here http://linuxindia.virtualave.net/lamhowto.html).
> > If I want something fancier, VOCP can build on that.
> >         My problem is that I need to do this on the cheap; $100 max.
> > The computer this will be running on (PowerMac G4, Fedora) has 4
> > unused PCI slots. I expect that my best bet is to buy several pci
> > cards with serial ports and three external modems. Would anyone pursue
> > a hardware strategy?
> >         I can find 2-port cards
> > (http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Dual-Two-2-Serial-RS232-Ports-PCI-Expansion-Card_W0QQitemZ300037861915QQihZ020QQcategoryZ3666QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) that claim linux support for $15 on ebay. These are based on a Netmos 9820 chip; does anyone have experience with this? I've found references (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-parport/2005-March/000277.html) that suggest it should work with the 8250_pci driver.
> >         My next question is what modems should I look for? There are
> > plenty of new $20 Actiontecs
> > (http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Actiontec-USB-Serial-56K-V92-90External-Fax-Modem_W0QQitemZ230038411946QQihZ013QQcategoryZ14920QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem), but they don't mention voice capability. Has anyone tried them? Are there any specific brands or models that anyone would recommend I look for used on ebay?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Brian 
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