[Mac-telephony-list] Apple USB modem dongle

[Jerry via List]

>> 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? :-)

Hmmm, good question. From what I recall, the FreeBSD stuff needs new world
hardware to run. But my point was that BSD zaptel wasn't that horrific.

>> 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
> [...]
> 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.

Well, I'll be wasting time on the FreeBSD side anyways, so looking at
it with OS X goggles from time to time might be interesting.
I have some other novelty hardware for a PC that I want to get working
on FreeBSD.

As a general effort, I'll defer to you though. Although I'm a quick
learner, I'm still a newbie in OS X waters, and I can't really judge how
difficult the driver architecture is.

> 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.

Any plans to support Digium hardware by this route? If it's a hook into
Unicall, I think that would be wonderful.

> 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.

No arguement with the longterm goal, but as I have a bunch of Digium stuff
hanging about, I'd like to see if there is a way to make that happy under
OS X. If Unicall, then that is fantastic. If that isn't viable short term,
I'd like to give the zaptel stuff a kick, or at least a look. I promise
not to waste lots of effort -- in the end, working would be nice, but
purchasing a new card isn't the end of the world.

J.