[ale] Voice Modems

[James P. Kinney III]

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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