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From: Justin Findlay <justin@××××××××.us>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need more help with Asterisk
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:09:00
Message-Id: 20061213000447.GC28769@archimedes
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT - Need more help with Asterisk by Michael Sullivan
1 On AD 2006 December 12 Tuesday 04:34:46 PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
2 > Can anyone give me a simple easy-to-understand place to start for
3 > setting up Asterisk? All I want it for is for Caller ID and to drop
4 > calls from certain phone numbers. I have a US Robots data/fax modem.
5
6 Start here.
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8 http://voipspeak.net/images/stories/orielly/AsteriskTFOT.zip
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10 Read the first few chapters or so. Set aside having the answer Right
11 Now and devote some time to theory and concepts. The asterisk dialplan
12 configuration is a little difficult to understand at first, at least it
13 was for me. You can email me with any questions if you want or try
14 various means of the asterisk community. Both the official irc channel
15
16 irc://irc.freenode.net/#asterisk
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18 and mailing list
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20 http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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22 are very active and usually helpful.
23
24 >From your account I can't tell whether you have a softphone installed.
25 I recommend iaxcomm, but unfortunately I can't get
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27 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81393
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29 to work because it wants the entire 152 Mib iaxclient svn repo for just
30 one 2.2 Mib application and because of a couple of other bugs in the
31 ebuild. You may also try kiax which is what I've been using until I get
32 around to making iaxcomm work. Kphone might also work for you too.
33
34 How is asterisk communicating with your modem card?
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36
37 Justin
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need more help with Asterisk Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need more help with Asterisk Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need more help with Asterisk Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>