On 07/20/2010 08:29 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday, July 19, 2010 23:57:52 Bill Davidsen wrote: >> RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote: >>> My laptop has a internal modem and RJ-11 connector. I want to connect >>> the phone line to the laptop and by using head phones I want to make >>> calls. How to do this? Is there any software available to do this? >> Log onto Google Voice and use the help feature. I searched using something >> like "VOIP via SIP on Linux" or similar. A few pages in was a set of >> replies to a question with all details on getting sipphone account and >> client, etc. > I think people are repeatedly misinterpreting OP's question here. As I > understood the OP, he wants to use a computer to emulate an ordinary analog > phone device. Nothing VoIP, SIP or otherwise Internet-related. > > Imagine he doesn't even have any Internet connection. A computer which is > completely off-line, connected to a phone landline via modem, and acting as a > regular, ordinary phone --- it rings when someone tries to call, it dials > outgoing calls, and converts audio input/output into electric signals like a > normal phone would. Maybe even act as an answering machine (recording voice > messages), a fax machine, and such. > > While I can only imagine *why* the OP would ever want this kind of thing, I > believe this could be possible in principle, provided that the modem can send > arbitrary analog signal over the wire. If his hardware is ok, it's just a > question of whether there is any software that implements this behavior. > > I have no answer, but would also be quite curious to know myself. :-) > > HTH, :-) > Marko > I think the op who posted confirmed this when I posted a similar reply to people who were suggesting VoIP ans SIP. Also, I sent that op links that provided exactly what he was looking for, and only one of them was a Linux solution. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
