[Mac-telephony-list] Apple USB modem dongle

[Benjamin Kowarsch via List]

On Dec 21, 2006, at 2:10 AM, Martin Joseph via List wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Benjamin Kowarsch via List wrote:
>
>> You have to have a voice capable modem. The first voice capable modem
>> Apple used was the Motorola SM56 which started to appear in late 2004
>> or early 2005.
>
> The above is clearly wrong.  Apple had voice capable modems going at
> least back to the performa 5200 series which included the very nice
> "Megaphone" which allowed for calling and answering voice calls via
> the modem...
>
> Sorry for nit picking.

You will have to take this up with Apple then. Because the above  
statement is from Cupertino and it is official. :P

I think though that you are referring to what was called Geoport  
adapters, which technically could be considered voice modems but  
Apple didn't consider them to be modems. Anything inside a Mac that  
Apple does consider to be a modem did not have voice capability  
before the Motorola SM56. Geoport adapters do not work with MacOS X  
at all.

> I have a USB modem dongle and a couple of working Asterisk installs
> if that helps any for testing the Unicall driver for that item...

As I had mentioned, we are waiting for some stuff Apple is doing.

BTW, this is a middleware, not a driver. Apple supplies the driver.  
Unicall doesn't know how to talk to Apple's driver. The middleware  
will make the link between the two.

rgds
benjk