-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-07-30 12:15, Per Jessen wrote:
Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
I have a conventinal external serial line data/vioce/fax modem. Is it possible to make phone calls through the computer using this modem?
No, it isn't possible. The next obvious choice is VoIP, but a 56K modem is not enough.
Yes, it is possible. I have seen it done years ago. There is some documentation of this in the hylafax project files. There is a setup somewhere to use the modem as answerphone with recorded messages as files in the computer. Some modems have jacks for audio in/out, which can be connected to the audio card in the computer. Others have "voice" capability: you speak into the microphone, the audio card digitizes this, it is sent over the serial port as "numbers", and the modem converts this data back to an analog signal (audio) that is sent electrically over the telephone wires, to be converted back to numbers at the exchange. Nothing magic about this. If the line is ISDN, there is only one conversion. That's the theory. I have never done it personally, nor do I have a voice modem presently. I'd like to... I would use it to make a filter for undesired phone calls via call-id. And... for VoIP, yes, you can use a plain modem. I know because I did it, with skyp - yes, it is voip, after all :-P - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxSqu4ACgkQU92UU+smfQVC7ACcCcVYYIE8FEfLIIvm25tOpd3P 8OUAn1XLZCbzbnDg0q2N606PoWCuhATU =laoJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org