On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 17:04 -0700, Justin Findlay wrote: > On AD 2006 December 12 Tuesday 04:34:46 PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Can anyone give me a simple easy-to-understand place to start for > > setting up Asterisk? All I want it for is for Caller ID and to drop > > calls from certain phone numbers. I have a US Robots data/fax modem. > > Start here. > > http://voipspeak.net/images/stories/orielly/AsteriskTFOT.zip > > Read the first few chapters or so. Set aside having the answer Right > Now and devote some time to theory and concepts. The asterisk dialplan > configuration is a little difficult to understand at first, at least it > was for me. You can email me with any questions if you want or try > various means of the asterisk community. Both the official irc channel > > irc://irc.freenode.net/#asterisk > > and mailing list > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > are very active and usually helpful. > > >From your account I can't tell whether you have a softphone installed. > I recommend iaxcomm, but unfortunately I can't get > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81393 > > to work because it wants the entire 152 Mib iaxclient svn repo for just > one 2.2 Mib application and because of a couple of other bugs in the > ebuild. You may also try kiax which is what I've been using until I get > around to making iaxcomm work. Kphone might also work for you too. > > How is asterisk communicating with your modem card? > > > Justin
kiax is a bust until I get asterisk to play nice with my modem. I tried to call my home number. kiax claimed to be calling, but I could hear a dial tone on my wife's cordless at the same time. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
