[geeks] Anybody running asterisk pbx?

[Thomas Gallaway]

Right now I run Fedora as my host os for asterisk. I wanted to do it in 
FreeBSD but after what I heard
some stuff will not work so I had to use linux.

Install was pretty easy from RPM's. As the modem I dont know about 
conexant. The cards that I got
where actually the ambient md3200 chipset. I purchased a few @ newegg 
for $14. Took them 3 days
to get it here with free fedex shipping (good deal!).

Anyways if you search on newegg for ambient md 3200 you should find it. 
It's the card that does not
have the speaker/mic plugs.

I did read something about the conexant modems but I think there is some 
hacking required to get
those working. The ambient md 3200 is just picked up by the zapata 
drivers with no problems:

Registered Tormenta2 PCI
PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 00:02.0
wcfxo: DAA mode is 'FCC'
Found a Wildcard FXO: Generic Clone
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 04:02.0
wcfxo: DAA mode is 'FCC'
Found a Wildcard FXO: Generic Clone
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 04:03.0
wcfxo: DAA mode is 'FCC'
Found a Wildcard FXO: Generic Clone
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 04:04.0
wcfxo: DAA mode is 'FCC'
Found a Wildcard FXO: Generic Clone

And then in asterisk:
voip*CLI> zap show channels
Chan Extension  Context         Language   MusicOnHold
   1            default         en         default
   2            default         en         default
   3            default         en         default
   4            default         en         default

So no problems here. Let me know if you need any more details or config 
files.

-- Thomas


phoetoid wrote:

> I too run the asterisk software, albeit for my home, but there is a 
> great guide I used in getting things working
> http://automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm
>
> also, for the guy who originally posted this, what OS are you running 
> on?  I am running on mandrake 8.1 with newer kernel version and I will 
> be damned if I can get any modem at all working. I have a couple of 
> old conexant 56k modems that are _exactly_ the same as the modems they 
> advertise on the digium site, so I would think they would work :/