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On AD 2006 December 12 Tuesday 04:34:46 PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> Can anyone give me a simple easy-to-understand place to start for |
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> setting up Asterisk? All I want it for is for Caller ID and to drop |
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> calls from certain phone numbers. I have a US Robots data/fax modem. |
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Start here. |
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http://voipspeak.net/images/stories/orielly/AsteriskTFOT.zip |
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Read the first few chapters or so. Set aside having the answer Right |
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Now and devote some time to theory and concepts. The asterisk dialplan |
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configuration is a little difficult to understand at first, at least it |
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was for me. You can email me with any questions if you want or try |
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various means of the asterisk community. Both the official irc channel |
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irc://irc.freenode.net/#asterisk |
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and mailing list |
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http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users |
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are very active and usually helpful. |
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>From your account I can't tell whether you have a softphone installed. |
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I recommend iaxcomm, but unfortunately I can't get |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81393 |
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to work because it wants the entire 152 Mib iaxclient svn repo for just |
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one 2.2 Mib application and because of a couple of other bugs in the |
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ebuild. You may also try kiax which is what I've been using until I get |
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around to making iaxcomm work. Kphone might also work for you too. |
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How is asterisk communicating with your modem card? |
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Justin |
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