To be quite honest, I have abandoned the Digium hardware across the board for analog. I have gone to the Sangoma A200. I can buy a card without echo cancellation and if the quality is sub par on the line (as they generally are), and add a module to the A200 and have hardware echo cancellation.
Sure it is a pain to recompile wanpipe every time zaptel comes out with a new release, but the granular configuration is worth it... Sean On 28-Sep-2006, Mark Rudholm wrote: > Ugh. You're right. Yet another important piece of software I have > to manage without the convenience of Portage. :( > > My TDM400, despite being very new, was affected by the bug that older > ones had in which they'd change their PCI ID sometimes after a power > cycle. I also had to modify the zaptel driver to support pulse dialing > (I have a collection of vintage phones). So I guess it's not really > that big of a deal. > > One of these days I need to explore the possibility of getting > zaptel to decode coin tones (1700+2200Hz) so I can cancel my > (expensive) coin line and move my Western Electric 2C2 to > Asterisk. Coin relay control isn't a problem, so the only > remaining hurdle is the coin detection. > > -Mark > > Sean Cook wrote: > > Correct... however it is masked by keyword and contains a significant bugs > > that were introduce in 1.2.10.. > > > > the default installation of asterisk is 1.0.11. > > > > Sean > > > > On 28-Sep-2006, Darko Luketic wrote: > >> I may be wrong, but > >> net-misc/asterisk-1.2.11 > >> looks like 1.2 to me :) > >> > >> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:01:08 -0400 > >> Sean Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Unfortunately, I would completely disagree with Mark on this... ATFOT is a > >>> great book, however it is a bit dated. And as for asterisk ebuilds... > >>> forget it... they are still running out of 1.0 when 1.2 has been out for > >>> almost a year and 1.4 is on it's way into beta. > >>> > >>> Download the source... compile and install it... > >>> > >>> You need the following packages: > >>> > >>> ncurses > >>> openssl > >>> zlib > >>> bison > >>> > >>> Then download all the necessary 1.2 packages and... > >>> > >>> # cd zaptel-1.2 > >>> # make clean; make install > >>> # cd ../libpri-1.2 > >>> # make clean; make install > >>> # cd ../asterisk-1.2 > >>> # make clean; make install > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Sean > >>> > >>> > >>> On 28-Sep-2006, Mark Rudholm wrote: > >>>> You should read the book "Asterisk The Future of Telephony". > >>>> It is available for free download. Search for "AsteriskTFOT.pdf" > >>>> Also, http://www.voip-info.org/ is a good resource for information. > >>>> > >>>> The Asterisk ebuild is pretty good. It sets everything up for > >>>> you, you just have to edit your config files. It's not something > >>>> you can do in 10 minutes. I'd say the complexity level is about > >>>> on par with Apache. > >>>> > >>>> -Mark > >>>> > >>>> Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: > >>>>> Dear all, > >>>>> > >>>>> Please anyone have experience about asterisk setup. and I'm very new to > >>>>> asterisk. so please help me to configure my asterisk server. > >>>>> i need to know like what are the basic requirement for to setup > >>>>> asterisk.. > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanking you, > >>>>> > >>>>> Suranga > >>>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> [email protected] mailing list > >>>> > >>> -- > >>> [email protected] mailing list > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> Darko Luketic > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> -- > >> [email protected] mailing list > >> > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- [email protected] mailing list
