Well, you could probably use one of the many SIP SDK's to write a bluetooth->SIP gateway, and then make it talk to a Cisco ATA-186 device (which run about $150) over the network. The box will generate a dialtone and ring your phones when a call comes in. > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [mailto:chrome at real-time.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:45 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] OT: ATT GSM > > > > I wonder if the bluetooth stuff works under linux. > > don't see why it shouldn't. > > Nate tells me that the wireless bluetooth headsets are > actually another 'telephone device' the the cellphone > acutally *forwards* calls to. > what I'd really like to do with something like that, is have > a linux box at home, with a bluetooth card/dongle on it, that > is plugged into my wired phones at home. so the cellphone > just forwards calls to the linux box, which makes the analog > phones ring. I get the advantages of wired phones (cheap, can > put many throughout the house), with the advantage of the > cellphone (cheaper service in some cases). > > something like that Internet PhoneJack thing should be able > to generate dialtone, right? I just need to build some sort > of linux PBX to handle the bluetooth/cellphone <-> wired > phone connection. > > at least that's what I'm guessing so far... I admit that I > don't know diddly squat about telephones, and I know that > things are a *lot* more complicated than I lay out above. > (getting voltage to ring the phones, etc). > > anyone ever built a linux PBX? with analog phones? > > Carl Soderstrom. > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-> linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >