[H-GEN] telephony + Linux

[Sarah Walters]

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On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:44:45PM +1000, David Seikel wrote:
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>  --- Rod Hurford <rhurford at bigpond.com> wrote: 
> > anybody out there ever managed to get the voice part of a voice modem to 
> > work under linux (either as a telephone or an answering machine)?
> > If so, what was the process? what software? what hardware/distribution? 
> > how painful was it?
> > (If you've tried and failed, I would also apprecaite your viewpoint :-) )
> 
> Every time I have tried, I have failed.  My conclusion is that the Linux
> voice support is for modems that are not available in this country.  On the
> other hand, I have not tried in the last two years, so things may be
> different now.

My husband tried this for FreeBSD, and David is correct. Something about
Type 1 and Type 2 voice modems or something like that. Most voice modems
are type 2 (I think, please read docos first), but in US they are type 1
and that's what the support is for. We did find one type 1, at David
Jones of all places, but it had extra features (eg it's a speakerphone)
that we didn't really feel like paying an extra $200 for. In the end we
decided that we didn't need it that badly.

-- 
Mrs Sarah Walters
Systems Group
Information Technology Services
University of Wollongong
Phone: +61 2 4221 3775


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