Martin McCormick, 16.01.2014: > We just switched telephone carriers and our new one has > callerID so I want to capture that information on a debian > system. > > While going through a box of older stuff, I found the > Apple usb modem my parents were using on their Mac. My father is > now on regular cable-supplied internet service and we haven't > used dial-up since about 2000 so here are my questions. > > The usb modem does it all with DSP so it is little more > than a bump in a cable with a usb plug on one end and a RJ11 on > the other. I suspect it is much like a winmodem which is useless > without the drivers. Does anybody know if these things were > capable of reading CallerID in the first place? > > If any part of it is useble in Debian, shouldn't it have > registered a new device or two in /dev? > > Here is what it did place in syslog minus all the time > stamp information: > > usb 4-2.1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4 > usb 4-2.1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=1401 > usb 4-2.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4 > usb 4-2.1: Product: Apple USB Modem > usb 4-2.1: Manufacturer: Motorola, Inc. > usb 4-2.1: SerialNumber: 000000 > usb 4-2.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
It looks like you're out of luck with this modem (though you could try loading the cdc-acm module as suggested, in case anything got improved in the years since these reports): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497361 https://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2008/08/msg00035.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140119113223.ga12...@cs.utexas.edu
