[GRLUG] Linux Compatible Voice Modem

[Thad Ward]

I needed to get a PCI modem with fax capabilities when upgrading the machine that
answers the fax line. The first one I got I was promised had linux support. It
did, but it was a pain to get set up and stable, and would occasionally stop
working. I did find another PCI modem that works rather well for my fax needs,
but I don't know about voice (and seems to have difficulty with answering data
calls when in fax mode).

lspci reports this for the modem I am currently using:

03:0a.0 Modem: Agere Systems Venus Modem (V90, 56KFlex) (prog-if 03 [Hayes/16650])

hmm... looking up the chipset shows voice capabilities.

--- On Fri, 7/29/11, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:

> From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Linux Compatible Voice Modem
> To: grlug at grlug.org
> Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 7:24 AM
> On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 18:37 -0400,
> Michael Mol wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Team Xlink
> > <teamxlinksolitudedev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I'm looking a Linux compatible voice modem. I
> plan to use it for a dial-in
> > > server in Linux.
> > > The problem is most PCI modems are limited to
> windows only.
> > > Does anyone know of a particular modem with Linux
> drivers?
> > > Thank you.
> > Most "winmodems" have drivers available for Linux. I
> think they're
> > even standardized, I just can't remember the name of
> the standard.
> > Winmodems are just modems that do all the complicated
> signal
> > processing in software. There exist daemons on Linux
> which will handle
> > this.
> 
> +1   I had little trouble getting a Lucent
> 'winmodem' built into a
> laptop to work.  One of the supported features was
> 'voice support' and
> there were reports of it working with vgetty.
> 
> But that was a long time ago.  Most winmodems were in
> just a couple of
> families then.  I have no idea what the current
> situation is.
> 
> >If you want something that's not a winmodem, then what
> you're looking
> > for is a serial modem; I wouldn't trust an old
> 'hardware' modem PCI
> > device.
> 
> Yep.  All PCI modems are pretty much just DSPs [aka
> winmodems].  Another
> option is PCMCIA modems; in my experience most of those are
> traditional
> UART-style modems.
> 
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