[Mac-telephony-list] Apple USB modem dongle

[Jerry via List]

> while we are nitpicking ...
>
> Zaptel won't build on MkLinux because it has a Mach kernel, not a
> Linux kernel. As for Zaptel on BSD, last time I checked, the only BSD
> for which a port of Zaptel was available was FreeBSD 5 or newer and
> that is highly experimental, so much so that everybody says its
> crashing all the time.

Your info is out of date. It's supported on the 4, 5 and 6.x versions, and
has been quite stable, based both on what I've read and my own limited
expreience. It's not perfect, but it's not crashing.
Just want to make sure you are picking the right nits. :)

> So, by the time you have written all the
> missing software for MkLinux or NetBSD on your Quadra, you've
> probably spend in the vicinity of 35.000 USD. That, BTW, is the
> average of the various quotations we had a year or so ago from
> various outsourcing shops to port Zaptel to OSX. I think you'll
> rather get the dongle modem or a Sipura.

I'm actually starting to dig into the Zaptel stuff, as the FreeBSD Zaptel
team seem to need a bit of a hand. Was there ever any forward progress on
the Zaptel stuff, or just professional quotations?

Thanks,
J.