making RING audible

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Mon, 28 Apr 1997 16:27:30 +0200


Hi,

Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> A friend is asking (and since he is not on this list) I'm passing 
> his question on to here:
> 
> He has his modem - a plain modem - circuited in parallel to his
> phone. When a call comes in a LED at the modem goes lit.
> 
> Now his question: Could either mgetty (or vgetty) be made recognizing
> the (voice) RING and cause an audible ring tone on /dev/speaker?

Some modems can make the RING audible (ATN<x> on the ZyXEL, some
S-Register on the ELSA). In mgetty, there is no such "hook" yet.

gert
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