phone expirement

[ReaperSoul]

i would like to be able to network a landline phone to my laptop and send signals through an direct Ethernet cable to it but i need to know what signals the phone accepts and what to send to it to have a voice come through on the phone

[Computergeek01]

If you are willing to compromise on your spec, a softphone will greatly simplify what you are trying to do. You'll need a phone provider gateway, phone.com is probably the cheapest at like $10 a month, a little more if you use their softphone which if you have fiber isn't terrible, if you are on copper just don't be doing anything else.

[jonnin]

landline phones don't generally take ethernet cables, so we need to know more here.

you can use an old time modem to do quite a lot with a phone. You can turn off the old handshake noisemaker thing and just tx/rx actual sound data, for example, and to dial it. You can still buy external modems and probably get a USB type cable to it for a modern laptop that has no phone connector. This info may or may not be anything like what you are asking, though. Its just one easy way to plug a phone to a PC. They also make phones that are designed to talk to PC, but I am not sure what cables they use or if its a mixed bag of USB/ethernet/other.

Softphones are awesome. The above is like 1995 hackery.