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To: fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com (Francis Yeung)
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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: PhoneBlaster support for FreeBSD 
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No, I'm not doing any of those fancy things yet.  You ought to look
at using the sound board part, as I think it's going to be much easier
to use it (with it's DMA support) to send and receive audio than shoving
it through a serial port.

louie

> > 
> 
> Louie,
> 
> 	Thank you for your reply.
> 
> 	Do you use the voice features e.g. voice mail box, Fax on demand
> , caller-ID, IVR, making voice call etc ? I am looking for some kind of 
> drivers, library (e.g. tapi like) calls, C/Perl interface etc to the
> voice features of the card. I have no problem using it as a modem or fax.
> I am currently playing with vgetty which is good but not enough.
> 
>  
> 	Thanks.
> 
> 	Francis
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > > 	Is there a driver for the PhoneBlaster card ?
> > 
> > The Phoneblaster is just a modem and a SB16 on a single card.  To
> > use the modem, just configure an sio (serial COM port device).
> > It sounds like you have a Phoneblaster 14.4, which isn't a PnP
> > device; this will make the configuration easier.
> > 
> > I'm using a Phoneblaster 33.6 PnP, and have to do PnP configuration 
> > first, and then talk to the modem and sound board by configuring
> > a serial port for the modem, and sound devices for the SB16 equivilent
> > on the board.
> > 
> > louie
> > 
> > 
> > > 	Please note that the PhoneBlaster card has
> > > 	a built-in Sound Blaster -  16 digital audio and
> > > 	FM synthesis. In addition, it has a 14.4 modem
> > > 	and a full duplex speakerphone. I am only
> > > 	interested in the voice and fax portion of
> > > 	the interface not the sound portion. 
> > > 
> > > 	TIA.
> > > 
> > > 	Francis
> > > 
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