Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-27 Thread Yahya Mohammad
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:30:52PM -0400, Simon wrote: hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal. I need a phone and the

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-25 Thread Simon
You seem to want to know the difference, FXO vs FXS.  If I got this wrong, just delete it.  FXS is meant to interface to a telephone set, so it gives talk battery and (as needed) ringing current.  FXO is meant to interface to a line from a telco switch, so it accepts battery (if the circuit

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon wrote: You seem to want to know the difference, FXO vs FXS. If I got this wrong, just delete it. FXS is meant to interface to a telephone set, so it gives talk battery and (as needed) ringing current. FXO is meant to interface to a line

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-25 Thread kyle . bader
-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] telephony You seem to want to know the difference, FXO vs FXS.  If I got this wrong, just delete it.  FXS is meant to interface to a telephone set, so it gives talk battery and (as needed) ringing current.  FXO is meant to interface to a line

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:48 +0100 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: [...] If you want Asterisk to answer your conventional POTS phone line then you can use an X100P card which you can buy for c £17. AIUI this is basically a modem based on a certain chipset that Digium have

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Apr 2009, at 19:38, Michael Higgins wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:48 +0100 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: [...] If you want Asterisk to answer your conventional POTS phone line then you can use an X100P card which you can buy for c £17. AIUI this is basically a modem

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stroller wrote: On 24 Apr 2009, at 19:38, Michael Higgins wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:48 +0100 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: [...] If you want Asterisk to answer your conventional POTS phone line then you can use an

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Stroller
On 22 Apr 2009, at 17:30, Simon wrote: ... I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than my girlfriend ever dreamed of! It seems extremely difficult to setup, specially for a newbie. In addition to

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
Hey thanks John, I found some pages of it online (specially the TOC) and it does seem like a very thorough answer to clear the fog in my situation! I'll try to find a place to read the whole content, or a book like this i might actually buy it. Thanks! On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:11 PM, John

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
Well i've had several projects ideas in the past that would have used asterisk in different ways. So, the reason to get it installed for my personal 1-line use is really a first step in understanding asterisk's basics and since I will probably work and tweak it every day for a certain period of

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
Hey Stroller, nice to see a friend in a similar situation as mine! I'm sure that having the hardware already, you probably made a lot of tests in the past... can you share some of your experience? and also, i wonder, why did you let the project down? was it because of lack of motivation (ie

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread kyle . bader
: [gentoo-user] telephony Take a look at a book called The Future of Telephony -- its free, but I am not sure where to get it. on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with gentoo on it, i dont think the vps

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
it to help me setup my first voip box.  Here's that link: http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:11:18 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] telephony Take

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread kyle . bader
be woth a look. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Simon turne...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:05:02 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] telephony oh! wow, i was on that page, but i followed some of the links and got to a place where

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Apr 2009, at 16:57, Simon wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Stroller ... I've actually got a really expensive (or it was when I bought it!) Cisco phone and an X100 POTS card sitting here, as I've been meaning to get round to implementing Asterisk for about 4 years now! Perhaps

[gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread Simon
hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal. I need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to the internet

[gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread John covici
Take a look at a book called The Future of Telephony -- its free, but I am not sure where to get it. on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:30:52 -0400 Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. [] I tend to tell folks up front to never listen to me or believe anything I say, so here's my... $.02. I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains

Re: [gentoo-user] Telephony software

2006-03-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
somebody knows any telephony software for Linux? I do not refer to Skype and likes, but any software that can me to call a contact using the 56K modem and headphone-microphone. there are many, like linphone, IHU, KPhone, WengoPhone and Ekiga. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Telephony software

2006-03-29 Thread Gianluca Gargiulo
thank you for help, but i don't refer to VOIP software, but simple software that drive modem to compose number and use the Audio Card or Audio Modem as Phone 2006/3/29, Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: somebody knows any telephony software for Linux? I do not refer to Skype and

[gentoo-user] Telephony software

2006-03-28 Thread Gianluca Gargiulo
Hi, somebody knows any telephony software for Linux? I do not refer to Skype and likes, but any software that can me to call a contact using the 56K modem and headphone-microphone. Thank you! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list