On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Steve Totaro <stot...@first-notification.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Brian J. Murrell <br...@interlinx.bc.ca> > wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:02:01 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: >>> >>> Why not just get a softphone and use a USB soundcard or even the onboard >>> sound card as your ATA? Like a MagicJack and SJphone or Xlite or >>> whatever it is that works with it. >> >> Please forgive my ignorance but I am not following you. >> >> My problem is this... I have a copper POTS line coming into the house and >> I have an Asterisk server which is incapable of accepting a PCI zap card >> as it has no PCI slots. >> >> I do have a PCI zap card though and I have a Linux machine I could put >> that in to. >> >> So now how do I use a USB soundcard and softphone to bridge the copper >> POTS line to the Asterisk server given that I only have an IP connection >> between the Asterisk server and the machine that has the zap card in it? >> >> b. >> > > > ATA is the wrong term then, you were unclear in your original > question. You want an FXO device. An ATA is an "Analog TERMINAL > Adaptor, not an FXO port. > > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-ATA > > Not sure why you wouldn't run Asterisk on the linux box that has PCI > slots..... Anyways, I guess you could run FreeSwitch or some other > software that supports Zaptel/Dahdi devices. You could set up TDMoE > if you are really feeling froggy. >
BTW, Asterisk is lightweight enough to run on a Linksys SoHo router. The WRT54G and other linux based hardware/firmware. It isn't the beast you make it out to be. -- Thanks, Steve Totaro +18887771888 (Toll Free) +12409381212 (Cell) +12024369784 (Skype) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users