Jackie: Linux doesn't have com ports. That's a Windows word and it doesn't apply on linux. On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Jack Heim wrote: > My info on the issues you bring up is about 2 years old but I think it > probably is still correct... Your items 2-4 below depend on your software > and not on the modem. For software, I think you want to go with mgetty. You > can probably do the things you want to do through mgetty's caller ID > feature. You have to have caller ID on your phone line of course. > > I did a little reading before I bought my modem and the prevailing wisdom > on the linux newsgroups was to use an external modem. An internal modem is > going to add a third com port to your machine. By default, com3 would be on > the same IRQ as com1. If you get an external modem, you can connect it to > com1 or com2 and avoid that problem. > > A friend of mine has an internal modem in his machine and he got it to work > by disabling com2 on the motherboard and forcing the modem to use com2. I > don't know how he did that though and he's on spring break now so I can't > ask him. I think he did it via the Windows setup program that came with the > modem. > > Anyway, I think you'll be able to do what you want through a combination of > an external modem and mgetty. > > > At 09:27 PM 3/23/02 -0600, you wrote: > > >What is a good modem to get that works under linux that can do the following: > >1. voice/data/fax > >2. trace the calls coming in if it's on an inside line rather than an > >outside direct line, i.e you have to dial 9 to get an outside line. > >3. would allow me to hook my regular phone up to it > >4. would be able to block callers based on what number they call from. > >I use both windows and linux, and am on a lan there, but at home, I will > >have to go back to dialup again. I don't even use the modem in my system > >right now, but could hook it up for blocking calls if there's no other way > >but to let them go to voice mail and never answer any calls. *60 doesn't > >get in to a prompt to do it, and dialing 9*60 doesn't work either. > >Thanks. > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org