Before I left for PA, I set my laptop up as an answering machine and it made me realize how many calls we get and how many get missed. So, I set up my linux box as a more permanent answering machine since it’s on more. <\/p>\n
Setting up the modem was pretty easy since it’s a hardware modem. I had to recompile my kernel to get the serial modules. To use my modem, I use the following commands<\/p>\n
modprobe 8250
\nmodprobe serial_core
\nsetserial \/dev\/ttyS0 uart 16550A port 0xd400 irq 9<\/p>\n
I then installed the mgetty and mgetty-voice debs and configured them loosely around the information I found on this great Linux answering machine howto page<\/a>.<\/p>\n To get vgetty to run, I added the following line to my \/etc\/inittab:<\/p>\n S0:23:respawn:\/usr\/sbin\/vgetty ttyS0<\/p>\n I wanted to be able to access the messages remotely by dialing in, so I needed to edit my \/etc\/mgetty\/voice.conf file and also I had to get the dtfm.sh and speakdate.sh from the source distribution<\/a> and copy them to \/var\/spool\/voice.sh. I had to record some of the messages listed in dtfm.sh and convert them to rmd files and copy them to \/var\/spool\/voice\/messages. Somethings still not right with speakdate.sh, but I don’t have time to work that out quite yet.<\/p>\n The mgetty\/vgetty home page is here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before I left for PA, I set my laptop up as an answering machine and it made me realize how many calls we get and how many get missed. So, I set up my linux box as a more permanent answering machine since it’s on more. Setting up the modem was pretty easy since it’s… Continue reading howto: computer as answering machine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-bp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}