Ok, I made some progress. I installed ncid, but it doesn't work. It says it can't find /dev/modem, and not surprisingly, it doesn't exist. I did a quick google search and came up wtih the ubuntu wiki, whitch led me to <a href="http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/hardy/modem-drivers/hsf/">http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/hardy/modem-drivers/hsf/</a> I installed the deb, but I don't have anything in /dev/modem. Am I missing out on something or is it not working?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Scott G. Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ScottGHall@bellsouth.net">ScottGHall@bellsouth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Ivan Panarusky wrote:<br>
<br>
> My computer came with a free modem, and we recently got caller ID. I am looking for a program that will display the caller id info when a call comes in, but my google foo only comes up with abandonware. Does anyone know of any such software<br>
<br>
</div>I know that one is available, because my Xandros system pops up a little<br>
bubble in the corner of the KDE taskbar with the caller ID, and a button<br>
to click on to answer the phone with the PC speakers and microphone.<br>
<br>
However, my Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora systems do not. My immediate guess<br>
is that this is a built-in utility or driver in the KDE suite, and not a<br>
regular on Gnome desktops. You might check on a Mint Linux desktop (a<br>
Ubuntu derivative that uses KDE and has a bunch of stuff installed and<br>
enabled including greyware of unknown propriety) and see if it also has<br>
such a feature. If so, you might be in luck looking in the KDE<br>
development tree.<br>
<br>
My SourceForge lists suggest that Xandros may have just implemented an<br>
NCID server and client for their desktops. Check out the NCID project:<br>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ncid/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/ncid/</a><br>
<br>
"The project page for NCID (formally TiVoCID) has moved to<br>
<<a href="http://ncid.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">http://ncid.sourceforge.net</a>> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ncid/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/ncid/</a><br>
<br>
"NCID is a network based Caller-ID package that includes a Caller-ID<br>
server and client.<br>
<br>
"The server runs on Linux, TiVo (DirecTiVo, or Series 1 - requires<br>
external modem or internal modem mod), FreeBSD, and Macintosh OS X.<br>
Most people run the server on Linux.<br>
<br>
"The client runs on the same platforms as the server, and also<br>
Windows. Also included are Linux client interface scripts that will<br>
speak the caller's name, email the CID information to a cell phone<br>
or text pager, or send a CID message to a Windows system."<br>
<br>
{<a href="http://tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=114969" target="_blank">http://tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=114969</a>}<br>
<br>
<br>
The NCID Server on a MythTV Backend:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Network_Caller_ID_%28NCID%29" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Network_Caller_ID_(NCID)</a><br>
<br>
I see there is also a Gnome project at FreshMeat:<br>
<a href="http://freshmeat.net/redir/gcallerid/19951/url_homepage/gcallerid" target="_blank">http://freshmeat.net/redir/gcallerid/19951/url_homepage/gcallerid</a><br>
<br>
--<br>
Scott G. Hall<br>
Raleigh, NC, USA<br>
ScottGHall@BellSouth.Net<br>
<br>
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