HI, My understanding is that the modem won't work. I believe asterisk does not support.
I wonder why you do not have the built in ethernet in your motherboard. You can spare your PCI slot for a proper FXO card and use USB-to-ethernet For a PCI FXO card, the cheapest will be X100 but be aware of the quality and compatibility. Or a better choice will be TDM400 Other alternative: Get a USB-FXO from Sangoma, expensive Get a working SPA3000 as FXO --- cheapest I believe Get a OBi100, out of stock at the moment. I also want to try Hope this is of help to you CK On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Stuart Longland <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I've tried researching this, and so far, have struggled to find any > contemporary information on the issue, so I do apologise if asking this > irritates people who have answered this before. > > I have managed to set up Asterisk 1.8 on the web server here. I have > two softphones (Ekiga) able to communicate with it. So far so good. > I'm now curious to see if I can link it with the PSTN phone line here. > > The web server in question is an Intel Atom system with a Mini-ITX > motherboard. Its one and only PCI slot is occupied by a PCI ethernet > card. So FXO card is not an option even if it were within budget. > > My options therefore look to be an external FXO device of some > description (Ethernet or USB), or to use a voice modem. I fear external > FXOs are going to be even more expensive than internal FXO cards. > > Now, I have here an old Maestro JetStream 56k modem here that does > amongst other things, voice comms, and I have used it in the past as a > telephone by plugging a headset into the front of it (and it was full > duplex too if I recall correctly). I have also used it as an answering > machine, with the audio being transmitted digitally over the RS232 > link. So that to me suggests it is possible to get audio in to and out > of the modem, either via a sound card or using the serial port. The web > server has a sound card too (hard not to buy a motherboard with one > these days). > > Apart from the lack of any hardware signal processing, it seems all the > components are there. The server isn't particularly heavily loaded, and > thus I see no reason why the machine wouldn't theoretically be able to > handle the DSP in software … I've seen lesser hardware do quite > sophisticated DSP in real-time. > > Now, I've hunted high and low for where this is configured. Some > mailing list threads point me to the nonexistant > /etc/asterisk/modems.conf. One points me to /etc/asterisk/phone.conf, > but nothing there jumps out at me as being an obvious means for > configuring a modem — nor can I find where it's documented on the > Asterisk wiki. > > Where abouts should I look for documentation on configuring these modules? > > Regards, > -- > Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. > Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' > http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' > > I haven't lost my mind... > ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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