On Saturday 07 February 2009 01:04:19 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:17:45PM +0000, Bhasker C V wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I tried to google around but could not even get a match near to what i > > want. In fact i am running short of terminologies to exactly define what > > i want. > > > > What i want is, i want to use the internal modem of a system to work > > as a PSTN gateway so that i can control my telephone when connected to > > my modem. This way, i can make my telephone ring through my software. I > > can re-route my audio in/out to the phone. Is this possible ? does the > > modem protocol support this ? > > A standard modem will not do what you want. Look up Asterisk > (http://www.asterisk.org). I think you will find this software > is what you are looking for, and there are some hardware suggestions > on the site too. > > Pat
I do not claim to be an expert. I have written and daily use a kde4 plasma- applet to control a speaker-phone modem (get it a kde-apps.org). Needed this because I do not have a phone-set by the machine. This way, I "do" :-) To make phone ring through software, xringd (available in repositories) will let you do that. I used parts of that code to monitor rings in my applet. To route the audio, besides running cables to the sound card, I do not see how to do this (unless the modem specifically supports such a thing). I wonder if alsa drivers are around special for voice modems. Asterisk is a very large pbx oriented suite but it probably the best developed of any of the telephony programs. Might take a look. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org