Last night, I attended a presentation on asterix by Greg Boehnlein, and I caught the bug. Today, I've spent the day reading, downloading, and trying to get started. Watch out for the first step, its a doozey!
I have no hardware(FXO, FXS ports, VoIP phones) as yet, so I'm trying to move forward with just the commodity stuff I have on hand. Here's my current plan: 1) Install and learn an IAX 'softphone' application. I have some minimal experience with ohphone, which I hope will translate to an IAX softphone. 2) Contract with an ITSP for a DN and PSTN interconnect. 3) Install and configure asterix as a simple(?) voicemail intermediary between the ITSP and the gnophone 'extension'. 4) Purchase IAXy and/or other FXS ports and expand to multiple extensions around the house. Sounds like a plan? Starting with step one, Google led me to gnophone, and I've downloaded and installed it, but gotten no further. It comes with absolutely no documentation, manpage, README, etc. It hasn't seen a release in three years. The download site has .rpms for the application, as well as several required libraries, but makes no mention of what distribution these are expected to fit. These installed without errors on my SuSE 8.1 system. I ran ldconfig. I attempted to start gnophone - it complained that it couldn't find libplds4.so. Locate told me I had it, in several aplication directories. I added /opt/mozilla/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf, re-ran ldconfig, and re-attempted gnophone. It issued a string of messages: Registering Enlightened Sound version 0 Loaded and activated '/usr/lib/gnophone/modules/audio-esd.so' New input space: 0 of 40 64 byte fragments (0 bytes left) New output space: 40 of 40 64 byte fragments (2560 bytes left) Registering Unknown Audio device on /dev/dsp0 Loaded and activated '/usr/lib/gnophone/modules/audio-oss.so' Loaded and activated '/usr/lib/gnophone/modules/audio-phone.so' Registering Mozilla/5.0 Loaded and activated '/usr/lib/gnophone/modules/html-mozilla.so' iax.c line 654 in iax_init: Started on port 5036 Listening on port 5036 Initialized phone core New input space: 0 of 40 64 byte fragments (0 bytes left) New output space: 40 of 40 64 byte fragments (2560 bytes left) No bytes to read Error reading voice data on Unknown Audio device on /dev/dsp0 Segmentation fault So here I'm stuck. There were no documentation files in the .rpm, nor on the website. The README consists only of "We released it, Hooray!". Is this worth pursuing? Is there another IAX softphone application out there? Greg mentioned in his talk a 'firefly IAX stack' but a google search tells me that is a windows app. Not an option. If this managed to start and run, how do I use it? The website mentioned a Mozilla interface. Will gnophone start a mozilla instance, capture an already running instance, or do I have to start it and point it at localhost:5036 or some other port? So many questions... -- Rick Green 'The more I learn, the more I learn... how much more there is to learn!" - Charlie Brown _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users