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From: Mark Rudholm <rudholm@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] ASTERISK
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:33:33
Message-Id: 451C1422.5050604@hyperreal.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] ASTERISK by Sean Cook
1 Oh, no, this payphone is not for making money, this is a decorative
2 piece in my home.
3
4 A friend of mine has a picture of a WE 2C2 on his website:
5 http://www.stromcarlson.com/payphones/snfcca001.jpg (the one on the
6 left) Very nice brushed stainless steel flush-mount. One of the
7 nicest-looking coin phones ever made.
8
9
10 Sean Cook wrote:
11 > as for the coin phone, just take a sip phone and drop in into a calling
12 > card context and charge their credit card ;) Of course it may cost you more
13 > to charge the card then what you get from the call...
14 >
15 > Sean
16 >
17 > On 28-Sep-2006, Mark Rudholm wrote:
18 >> Ugh. You're right. Yet another important piece of software I have
19 >> to manage without the convenience of Portage. :(
20 >>
21 >> My TDM400, despite being very new, was affected by the bug that older
22 >> ones had in which they'd change their PCI ID sometimes after a power
23 >> cycle. I also had to modify the zaptel driver to support pulse dialing
24 >> (I have a collection of vintage phones). So I guess it's not really
25 >> that big of a deal.
26 >>
27 >> One of these days I need to explore the possibility of getting
28 >> zaptel to decode coin tones (1700+2200Hz) so I can cancel my
29 >> (expensive) coin line and move my Western Electric 2C2 to
30 >> Asterisk. Coin relay control isn't a problem, so the only
31 >> remaining hurdle is the coin detection.
32 >>
33 >> -Mark
34 >>
35 >> Sean Cook wrote:
36 >>> Correct... however it is masked by keyword and contains a significant bugs
37 >>> that were introduce in 1.2.10..
38 >>>
39 >>> the default installation of asterisk is 1.0.11.
40 >>>
41 >>> Sean
42 >>>
43 >>> On 28-Sep-2006, Darko Luketic wrote:
44 >>>> I may be wrong, but
45 >>>> net-misc/asterisk-1.2.11
46 >>>> looks like 1.2 to me :)
47 >>>>
48 >>>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:01:08 -0400
49 >>>> Sean Cook <scook@×××××.net> wrote:
50 >>>>
51 >>>>> Unfortunately, I would completely disagree with Mark on this... ATFOT is a
52 >>>>> great book, however it is a bit dated. And as for asterisk ebuilds...
53 >>>>> forget it... they are still running out of 1.0 when 1.2 has been out for
54 >>>>> almost a year and 1.4 is on it's way into beta.
55 >>>>>
56 >>>>> Download the source... compile and install it...
57 >>>>>
58 >>>>> You need the following packages:
59 >>>>>
60 >>>>> ncurses
61 >>>>> openssl
62 >>>>> zlib
63 >>>>> bison
64 >>>>>
65 >>>>> Then download all the necessary 1.2 packages and...
66 >>>>>
67 >>>>> # cd zaptel-1.2
68 >>>>> # make clean; make install
69 >>>>> # cd ../libpri-1.2
70 >>>>> # make clean; make install
71 >>>>> # cd ../asterisk-1.2
72 >>>>> # make clean; make install
73 >>>>>
74 >>>>>
75 >>>>>
76 >>>>> Sean
77 >>>>>
78 >>>>>
79 >>>>> On 28-Sep-2006, Mark Rudholm wrote:
80 >>>>>> You should read the book "Asterisk The Future of Telephony".
81 >>>>>> It is available for free download. Search for "AsteriskTFOT.pdf"
82 >>>>>> Also, http://www.voip-info.org/ is a good resource for information.
83 >>>>>>
84 >>>>>> The Asterisk ebuild is pretty good. It sets everything up for
85 >>>>>> you, you just have to edit your config files. It's not something
86 >>>>>> you can do in 10 minutes. I'd say the complexity level is about
87 >>>>>> on par with Apache.
88 >>>>>>
89 >>>>>> -Mark
90 >>>>>>
91 >>>>>> Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote:
92 >>>>>>> Dear all,
93 >>>>>>>
94 >>>>>>> Please anyone have experience about asterisk setup. and I'm very new to
95 >>>>>>> asterisk. so please help me to configure my asterisk server.
96 >>>>>>> i need to know like what are the basic requirement for to setup asterisk..
97 >>>>>>>
98 >>>>>>> Thanking you,
99 >>>>>>>
100 >>>>>>> Suranga
101 >>>>>>>
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