[NBLUG/talk] Connecting an old USR Sportster to USB

[gandalf at sonic.net]

Hmmm. HSC has a two port PCI card for $22 not bad for right now that claims Linux compatibility. It's a work machine so being able to do something else with it later isn't really a big draw and the price is fine. I'm actually not wanting typical modem features but am interested in using the voice capabilities with vgetty that the Sportster is supposed to be able to do. 

The project is a line tester. It would dial a list of numbers and record the response. The numbers should all produce an outgoing only message (no humans on the other end unless something is wrong). The modem records the message which is converted to an mp3 file that someone can listen to in a fast efficient manner. Apparently using vgetty you can pretty much create your own voice-mail system. 

It'd be great if I could get the system to compare the recorded audio to known samples, but I don't' think that's quite feasible. 



 On Wed 30/01/13  3:07 PM , "Kyle Rankin" kyle at nblug.org sent:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 02:52:52PM -0800, Walter Hansen wrote:
> > Today I went to go hook up an external modem to
> one of our servers. It's running an older version of debian. I had forgot
> that I have a temperature and humidity sensing system hooked up to the com
> port. It's pretty sweet, monitors the temp on the room and each individual
> machine and I have it hooked up to email me about anything unusual and text
> my phone with anything really serious. In the old building leaving the
> sever room door open was enough for it to start emailing me. > 
> > Anyway, it only has one serial port and several
> USB ports. So two solutions come to mind. One is a Serial to USB adapter,
> and the other is getting a card with a couple of serial ports on it. I
> wonder which course of action has the least headache involved and is such
> hardware available locally? > 
>