From: "John R. Hogerhuis" <jhoger@...>
Sep 15, 2005
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 13:45 +0000, Franco Iacomella wrote:
Why would you need a winmodem? Actually, there are drivers for some
winmodems for Linux machines. Some of these modems are interesting in
that they can act as an FXO allowing you to connect a Linux box running
Asterisk to a regular phone line.
This article gives some hope that you can just connect two modems
together with a regular phone cable.
(URL)
ATA on the host and let MS dial in.
Unfortunately I just tried this with a MS150 and a rockwell external
modem, no workey.
Typed ATA in terminal on rockwell side, and hit Get Email on MS. I had
to configure the mailstation to "ignore dial tone" but that just kept it
from timing it out. No connection is established.
Could it be configuration on modem side? Anyone have any ideas?
From: Gary Clouse <niklaus37217@...>
Sep 26, 2005
Some modems are line-powered. They use the phone line
to power the part of the modem circuitry. Connecting a
cross-over phone cable between a line-powered modem
and another modem, it won't work because the
line-powered modem won't have enough voltage to
operate. Line-powered modems are common in portable
devices and can be spotted by a REN (Ringer
Equivalency Number) of more than 0. Most phone
companies allow 2 REN. The phone lines use between 24
and 48 volts.
A winmodem on the other hand is an imcomplete modem
with most of the higher-level functions (like
compression and dialing ) handed off to a software
driver. Winmodems are cheaper to manufacture, and can
be upgraded by changing a driver. And the drivers are
buound by trade secret agreements with Microsoft which
give Microsoft dominion over who is allowed to use the
modem.
if you have 2 phone lines at home, you can run a bbs
program on you PC, call the pc from the ms on the
other line and should be able to quickly work out the
signon dialogue, and simulate it on the PC. Ther is a
simple free BBS program called AddBBS that is written
in perl. Also perl is available free of charge for
almost every OS in existance.
(URL)
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From: "david_zmk" <David_zmk@...>
May 1, 2007
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