Re: [Asterisk-Users] Just getting started...
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Wilson Pickett wrote: > > Here's my current plan: > > > > Sounds like a plan? > > You asked for advice, here comes some that few will approve of :) > > FWIW I tried to get gnophone running and got no further than you did. > What struck me though was that I have a very linux wise programmer > friend and associate that never got it running either. > > The unpalatable advice of mine is that for initial testing, it would > be good if you could either have a Windows box or laptop to avail > yourself of the larger number of softphones, among them a few that > work pretty well, or, bite the bullet and buy an IAXy if you can > afford it and feel you'll be investing in one later. Or try SIP just > to get things running. If you decide to go down the Windows client route, I would highly reccomend Virbiage's FireFly IAX client. I use it quite a bit on my Laptop and it has been rock solid. BTW.. I'm glad you liked the Presentation! ;) -- Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. Company http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! KP-216-121-ST ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Just getting started...
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Michael Van Donselaar wrote: > I think that iaxComm is currently the only other iax softphone for linux > http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/index.html Thanks for the lead. I gave it a try on SuSE 8.1, and it failed with a library incompatibility. I tried it on SuSE 9.1, and it starts up, but segfaults when I a) try to preview a ringtone, b) attempt to dial. This is with the precompiled binary. Mebbe I'll try compiling from source and see if I get better luck... I added an entry to the directory as the web page suggested, but I can't seem to figure out how to dial another station directly. I don't have an account on any server yet, so I was just hoping to dial another instance on another box on the LAN. I also found ziaxphone, which is an implementation for the Zaurus. It took a few edits to permissions and the startup script to get it to run on my SL-5600, but now that seems to run stable. Now as soon as I can get iaxcomm running, I'll have something to test against... -- Rick Green "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Just getting started...
> Here's my current plan: > > Sounds like a plan? You asked for advice, here comes some that few will approve of :) FWIW I tried to get gnophone running and got no further than you did. What struck me though was that I have a very linux wise programmer friend and associate that never got it running either. The unpalatable advice of mine is that for initial testing, it would be good if you could either have a Windows box or laptop to avail yourself of the larger number of softphones, among them a few that work pretty well, or, bite the bullet and buy an IAXy if you can afford it and feel you'll be investing in one later. Or try SIP just to get things running. hth ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Just getting started...
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:48:05 -0500 (EST), Rick Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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. > I think that iaxComm is currently the only other iax softphone for linux http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/index.html >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. It's much better documented than gnophone: there's a README *and* a QUICKSTART OK, so the documentation isn't that fantastic, but there are some screenshots on the web page. ___ 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
[Asterisk-Users] Just getting started...
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
[Asterisk-Users] Just getting started
I was wondering what type of production systems are in use at this time I was thinking about offering this to customers as a addition to the services I already offer them along with becoming a reseller for one of the local Clecs here. What type and size of Processor and Memory are required for say 2 line 4 ext vs. say 4 line 32 extension. I was thinking on real small systems a AMD Duron 2000 with 256mb ram and a 40gb hdd and on the larger system as I would need either a lot of pci slots or a channel bank an AMD XP 2400+ on a MB with 6 pci slots for 4 lines and 8 ext. What type of Phones do most use as just ext where you have a 4 port FXS card in the box? What is available at a decent price for a IP phone that will work with this system and at what price? I know this is probably very trivial for most on this list but we all have to start somewhere. Thanks for your help Larry D. Black CEO Black Sheep Computing, inc 2312 E Matthews Jonesboro, AR 72401 870.910.6969 ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
