CALLER ID:

[Igor Gueths]

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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
> 
> 
> 
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