Michael Sprague wrote: > Thank you for that comment! > I am operating with no hardware cards at the moment (actually, my > current setup id a P133 laptop with Debian/Asterisk), but I could see > that changing down the road. I did some checking and it seems there is > not much clearly set out as far as what cards would be usable in the > soekris boards considering the voltage and current constraints. For my > purposes, ideally there would be a 1 FXO, 1 FXS port card to add to > it, but I don't think such a thing exists that the soekris will be > happy with. In my searches I found reference to overloading the IRQ > servicing on the soekris with some interface cards. I don't need > additional data connectivity, but being able to get rid of SPA-3000s > would be a definite bonus. Any options for that? Maybe that would > require jumping up to a VIA board? Has anyone found (or created) a PCI > card compatibility chart for soekris that is VOIP related? > With the requirement of both fxs and fxo, you'd be happier with a VIA Epia board. The PD series would give you two ethernet ports. I've disabled most of the on-board devices other than the ethernet and one serial port. My tdm card is sharing interrupt 5 with the usb controller. I don't use the usb and this hasn't been an issue to date. If you only need one ethernet port, you could use pretty much any of the boards.
VERSA also makes a line of mini-itx boards which are built on the same VIA processors. Mini-box.com has a nice bundle which looks like it would work great. The M300 is a fairly small case (20cm x 24xm x 7.8cm) that is compact flash bootable and would fit a half-length pci card. The cool thing about that system is you can add a lan module if you need one in the future. To me, the Soekris/WRAP boards are very nice for firewalls and even IP only asterisk installs. Anything more than that and you're really taxing the load on the CPU and running into limitations on memory. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
