[Mac-telephony-list] Apple USB modem dongle

[Benjamin Kowarsch via List]

On Dec 21, 2006, at 3:17 AM, Jerry via List wrote:

> Your info is out of date.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. :)

And how would that help on a Mac Quadra? :-)


> 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?

Some very capable people have tried to come up with at least a  
working ztdummy for about a year. At some point the mailing-list for  
the zaptel effort had about 10 or so members and half of them had OSX  
driver expertise and telephony expertise.

The quotations were obtained when this was going nowhere. The  
feedback then contributed to kill the effort for good. Based on the  
comments about Zaptel from people who know drivers I think it is fair  
to say that you shouldn't be wasting your time trying to revive this.  
It makes a lot more sense to follow a non-zaptel approach.

Voicetronix have a proper driver framework which currently hooks  
directly into Asterisk, but from discussions I had with them it looks  
as if they are interested to hook into Unicall, too. Likewise,  
Sangoma have announced a zaptel-free driver framework and there is  
some code for that which the Yate and Freeswitch guys are using.  
Steve Underwood (the Unicall guy) is interested to see this progress  
so he can hook it up to Unicall and if Sangoma isn't going to finish  
this, he will probably take matters into his own hands. I say, the  
future lies in Unicall. Unicall is cross-platform and some of the non- 
zaptel driver frameworks by various vendors are also cross-platform,  
so this is where we should be heading, not zaptel.

rgds
benjk