ELSA MicroLink and Caller-ID

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Hi,

Michael Weber wrote:
> I was playing around with mgetty-1.1.6 and finally got stuck at the Caller-ID
> feature. The "policy.h" says:
> 
> [...]
> * For Rockwell-Based modems, add #CID=1 to MODEM_INIT_STRING, for
> * ZyXELs use S40.2=1.
> [...]
> 
> Well, I thought the MicroLink was one of those "Rockwell-based" modems and I
> tried "AT#CID=1" -- the modem-response was "ERROR"...

If that's an analogue modem, forget about Caller ID -- it's not available
(yet?) in Germany.

> BTW: I am not quite sure whether I have understood how the Caller-ID detection
> works... By now, I believed that - in Germany - only ISDN is able to transmit
> the caller's telephone number... and only if it is not disabled... and only if
> I also do have an ISDN line...

More or less.

> Well, since I only have an analog line (but I can use tone dialing,
> anyway... BTW: what is the translation of "digitale Vermittlung"?? (-:) I guess
> it will not work, regardless whether the modem has a "Caller-ID"-feature...

Exactly. The Telekom doesn't send the data on analogue lines.

gert
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