[asterisk-users] voice fax modem and asterisk

[Yuan LIU]

>From: "Gregory Machin" <gregory.machin at gmail.com>
>
>Is it an external serial modem ?
>any tips on how to get it to work ?

These include a collection of cheap WinMODEM's - google for X100P clone and 
you'll find lots of information.  The one mentioned used Motorola chipset 
(commonly known as SM56), but more poeple have experience with one using an 
Intel chipset.  If you don't like the trouble of eBay, you can go to 
DigitNetworks and buy a "genuin" X100P for $18 (which I also did) - not that 
there is much difference.

But the other response was correct: to do just answering and recording, 
there are a lot more options than Asterisk/Linux.  Making Asterisk work with 
X100P and clones is straight forward.  Tip: the MODEM card is just a Zap 
channel for Asterisk.  All you need to do is to follow documentation.  
Making Asterisk do what you want is also easy provided you learn Asterisk - 
but more work than "answering machine" applications.

Yuan Liu

>Thanks for you time ..
>
>On 1/4/07, Yuan LIU <yliu11 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >From: "Gregory Machin" <gregory.machin at gmail.com>
>> >
>> >Hi I have been asked to ind out if there is a way to use asterisk to
>> >answere a voice fax modem so it can provide an answering service and
>> >record messages ?
>>
>>Absolutely - if that MODEM happens to be an X100P clone - such as my
>>ENF656-PCIG-MOPR.  There are quite a few - and you can buy one still.  It
>>can do a lot more than answering and recording.
>>
>>Yuan Liu
>>
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>> >Gregory Machin
>> >gregory.machin at gmail.com
>> >www.linuxpro.co.za
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