Hi Ingmar > You could at least ensure that the driver detects your card properly and > loads. > Once this is the case it would be up to you when you would want to switch > one connection to this card (or if you would prefer getting another BRI > installed).
Absolutely. A second BRI is out of the question, since this is a cost-cutting exercise, but switching away from the old Avaya kit and its support costs is the aim. > If you have just one BRI per office (2 lines), you could simply buy an HFC- > based card and you are ready to go. That would be the fastest and simplest > solution. Our main office has around 40-50 seats, and certainly often around 20-30 people working from it, so a BRI won't manage that, I assume (not that I know how many channels a BRI can have). > What kind of hardware (board/system) do you have in mind? A net5501? Or > a Via board? Probably net5501s, assuming I only need one PCI card in each one. > For demo purposes I'd take a standard PC, get the software installed and run > the demo. Absolutely. This is what I have already done with the analogue card I tested - I have a HDD desktop running geni586 0.6.1 on a manual runnix install, with a Digium analogue card installed, all working fine. No problem putting the Diva card in there too. > If this works and people are happy, you can still decide if you would > want to run on embedded hardware with Astlinux + customized driver set to > support your Diva card or go with Astlinux + hfc card. Agreed. I only have one Diva BRI card, but I have two locations, one BRI, one PRI, so if we go down this route, I'm going to need to purchase at least one card. That can be one which works with Astlinux out of the box. Thanks for all the help. Is this something anyone wants to explore? A warning, though: I'm no Linux expert. I'm also no phone expert (which often makes me wonder why I'm doing all this, but that's another story...) Thanks Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
