ELSA 28.8 TQV voice supported ?

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Sat, 23 Dec 1995 11:13:36 +0100


Hi,

Helmrich Streitmatter wrote:
> I recently purchased an ELSA 28.8 TQV modem as a replacement 
> for my ZyXEL 1496+. The ZyXEL was connected to a Linux box where it 
> worked very well as a DATA/FAX/VOICE machine with vgetty 0.22. 
> 
> Now I'd like to implement the same functionality with the ELSA modem. 
> Is there somebody who has experinces with the Microlink 28.8 TQV and 
> mgetty/vgetty ? What about the voice functions ? 

Marc will publish his vgetty re-write soon (he said "before the end of the
year"), and the ELSA will be fully supported in this version.

> The Microlink 28.8 TQV does'nt have either a AA led nor a DATA/VOICE button
> which were very usefull on ZyXEL to show an incoming voice data resp. to 
> play the incomming voice data. Is there another way to let one know that
> there are incomming voice messages without loging in and look at the 
> voice spool directory ?

Difficult, you need to start some action, and without external buttons,
you need to call the shell scripts directly... which is not possible
without being logged in.

gert

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