-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you know anything about the modem at all, check out www.linmodems.org. There are some winmodem drivers you can find there. On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:16:42PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote: > Ok, this is a bit off topic but not really, cause you gotta have a modem to > use Caller ID! > My system has an internal modem. I got this computer prebuilt, and the > person who built it knew it was to be used for Linux, but didn't know much > about Linux I don't think. So they put Windows 98 on it, which I > immediately trashed. My question is this. /proc/pci recognizes the modem, > but I can't seem to talk to it using something like Kermit. I have no idea > who the manufacturer of the modem is, or the model. Would Linux recognize > it as a modem even if it is a Winmodem, totally unusable in Linux? Can any > Winmodems be used in Linux via some driver, kernel patch, etc? > I could hook up a serial modem, except that com1 is used by my Dectalk > Express for Speakup and com2 is used by, get this, my Apple IIgs! I've been > doing some disk image transfers so I can play with a text-based Apple > emulator, etc. > Any thoughts? > Jayson. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dawes, Stephen" <Stephen.Dawes at calgary.ca> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:28 AM > Subject: CALLER ID: > > > In the "System wide message" thread, Shaun asked if I would share what I > am doing with a caller id solution with the group. > Here is the answer to his question. > > You bet. > > I did some more work on it last night, and just need to figure out one > last little thing. When all is done, I think that I will have a hot > little tool. > > As a little teaser, here is what it will do in the end. > When the phone rings my little system, yet to be named, will: > 1. Display the caller id information in a meaningful message across your > network, including any Windows boxes, to all logged in. > 2. Log all caller id information in a log file. > 3. create a Web page from the log file that lists all the calls in the > caller id log file in a meaningful fashion, with the most recent call at > the top. > > Some other ideas that I am toying with are: > 1. Reworking the Web page to show Name, Number, The last date and time > the person called, the number of times this person called on that day, > and the number of times that person has called since tracking started. > 2. A dial-out feature that is launched from the Web page. > > Away off in the future I may play with a blocking feature that will > allow for the system to stop those annoying calls from bugging you. You > know the group that I am talking about, telemarketers, Mother-in-laws, > and the like. > > If you have any ideas for this little system, let me know, and I will > try to add them to the list. > > Watch for it soon. > (soon means: Just as soon as I get this one little annoying bug worked > out.) > > How is that for a brochure Shaun? > > Steve Dawes > Phone: (403) 268-5527 > Email: SDawes at calgary.ca > > > > > NOTICE - > This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity > named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally > privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named above or a person > responsible for delivering messages or communications to the intended > recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any use, distribution, or copying of > this communication or any of the information contained in it is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify > us immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this communication, > or return it to us by mail if requested by us. The City of Calgary thanks > you for your attention and cooperation. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLO8INohoaf1zXJMRAklOAJ9Tspl5gN5QyYPp+hfA6egvKAaHLACggnzA Himq1ZCu4zEKcAR3HsEiFYg= =y74+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
