Hi all, I've tried researching this, and so far, have struggled to find any contemporary information on the issue, so I do apologise if asking this irritates people who have answered this before.
I have managed to set up Asterisk 1.8 on the web server here. I have two softphones (Ekiga) able to communicate with it. So far so good. I'm now curious to see if I can link it with the PSTN phone line here. The web server in question is an Intel Atom system with a Mini-ITX motherboard. Its one and only PCI slot is occupied by a PCI ethernet card. So FXO card is not an option even if it were within budget. My options therefore look to be an external FXO device of some description (Ethernet or USB), or to use a voice modem. I fear external FXOs are going to be even more expensive than internal FXO cards. Now, I have here an old Maestro JetStream 56k modem here that does amongst other things, voice comms, and I have used it in the past as a telephone by plugging a headset into the front of it (and it was full duplex too if I recall correctly). I have also used it as an answering machine, with the audio being transmitted digitally over the RS232 link. So that to me suggests it is possible to get audio in to and out of the modem, either via a sound card or using the serial port. The web server has a sound card too (hard not to buy a motherboard with one these days). Apart from the lack of any hardware signal processing, it seems all the components are there. The server isn't particularly heavily loaded, and thus I see no reason why the machine wouldn't theoretically be able to handle the DSP in software … I've seen lesser hardware do quite sophisticated DSP in real-time. Now, I've hunted high and low for where this is configured. Some mailing list threads point me to the nonexistant /etc/asterisk/modems.conf. One points me to /etc/asterisk/phone.conf, but nothing there jumps out at me as being an obvious means for configuring a modem — nor can I find where it's documented on the Asterisk wiki. Where abouts should I look for documentation on configuring these modules? Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users