Can one do anything useful With an Old USB Apple Dialup Modem?

[Martin McCormick <martin@x.it.okstate.edu>]

	We just switched telephone carriers and our new one has
callerID so I want to capture that information on a debian
system.

	While going through a box of older stuff, I found the
Apple usb modem my parents were using on their Mac. My father is
now on regular cable-supplied internet service and we haven't
used dial-up since about 2000 so here are my questions.

	The usb modem does it all with DSP so it is little more
than a bump in a cable with a usb plug on one end and a RJ11 on
the other. I suspect it is much like a winmodem which is useless
without the drivers. Does anybody know if these things were
capable of reading CallerID in the first place?

	If any part of it is useble in Debian, shouldn't it have
registered a new device or two in /dev?

	Here is what it did place in syslog minus all the time
stamp information:

 usb 4-2.1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
 usb 4-2.1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=1401
 usb 4-2.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
 usb 4-2.1: Product: Apple USB Modem
 usb 4-2.1: Manufacturer: Motorola, Inc.
 usb 4-2.1: SerialNumber: 000000
 usb 4-2.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
 usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

	Is there any device that will capture callerID and spit
it out to a serial port or similar?

Martin McCormick

Thanks.