Martin McCormick, 16.01.2014:
>       We just switched telephone carriers and our new one has
> callerID so I want to capture that information on a debian
> system.
> 
>       While going through a box of older stuff, I found the
> Apple usb modem my parents were using on their Mac. My father is
> now on regular cable-supplied internet service and we haven't
> used dial-up since about 2000 so here are my questions.
> 
>       The usb modem does it all with DSP so it is little more
> than a bump in a cable with a usb plug on one end and a RJ11 on
> the other. I suspect it is much like a winmodem which is useless
> without the drivers. Does anybody know if these things were
> capable of reading CallerID in the first place?
> 
>       If any part of it is useble in Debian, shouldn't it have
> registered a new device or two in /dev?
> 
>       Here is what it did place in syslog minus all the time
> stamp information:
> 
>  usb 4-2.1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
>  usb 4-2.1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=1401
>  usb 4-2.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
>  usb 4-2.1: Product: Apple USB Modem
>  usb 4-2.1: Manufacturer: Motorola, Inc.
>  usb 4-2.1: SerialNumber: 000000
>  usb 4-2.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>  usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

It looks like you're out of luck with this modem (though you could
try loading the cdc-acm module as suggested, in case anything got
improved in the years since these reports):

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497361
https://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2008/08/msg00035.html


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