On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 05:28:40PM -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > Ok, this may be a totally stupid question, but I can't believe I'm the first > to come across it.
The only stupid question is the one not asked. How else would we learn? > My T410 has a modem. I just picked up a Plantronics .Audio 995 wireless If it's a voice-capable modem... Most likely as most (all?) not ancient modems are software modems. > headset, which works very nicely with Skype. But sometimes my Skype > connection isn't reliable enough. Is there a way to plug a phone line into > the modem and use it as, like, a phone through Windows? Or am I trying to The answer here is likely to be software. I use Linux and I've been using the modem in my Dell 8600 laptop as an answering machine for years, with vgetty. Phone messages get sent as sound attachments and appear in my main email box. I presume the right phone software could control the modem and use it. It would be nice to have that capability and also the capability to record phone conversations made or received on the phone line conntected to the computer, which also has a regular phone connected to it. An event could be generated on off-hook and the recording software could start or a window could pop up with a button that the user could click to start recording. A virtual phone could be a GUI app, that uses the modem in voice mode. Just did a quick look up of the phone applications available in the debian package management system and while there are many, they all appear to be for VOIP. No indication that any actually use local voice modems. Does anyone know otherwise? Are there virtual phone software out there that deals with local voice modems? > meld 1990s technology with 2000s technology in a horrible and perverse way? Well, I for one would really like to have a virtual phone on my KDE desktop that could take advantage of the local voice modem. Does anyone know what (debian preferably) phone app could be configured to do this? > .phsiii Augustine _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
