[Asterisk-bsd] Real usefullness of mpg123 dependency / rxfax note

[Paul McKenzie]

HI All
just looking for some help installing asterisk on freebsd6.0 ... tried 
installing and getting the following error message "
fetch: 
ftp://ftp.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/old-releases/asterisk-1.0.9.tar.gz: 
No address record
=> Attempting to fetch from 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
fetch: 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/asterisk-1.0.9.tar.gz: 
File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1
Thanks for your help
paul


>From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh at alphaque.com>
>Reply-To: Asterisk on BSD discussion <asterisk-bsd at lists.digium.com>
>To: Asterisk on BSD discussion <asterisk-bsd at lists.digium.com>
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] Real usefullness of mpg123 dependency / rxfax 
>note
>Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:15:36 +0800
>
>
>
>On 02/23/06 23:54 Vahan Yerkanian said the following:
>>6.0... I've switched to native format MoH since 1.1 and haven't looked 
>>back for mpg123. Was wondering if we really want to have it installed as
>
>ditto here. i think the dependency on mpg123 can be safely removed, 
>provided we patch configs/musiconhold.conf.sample to have a different 
>default using native moh instead of the current default using mpg123. this 
>minor patch could be a freebsd-specific patch as part of ports and it would 
>greatly enhance the out of the box experience of asterisk on freebsd.
>
>>As a non-related side note, I just succeeded in receiving a multipage fax 
>>over g711(alaw) / 9600 fax passthru connection (non-T38) from a panasonic 
>>fax machine using rxfax/spandsp installed via current asterisk port. Both 
>>adapter and the * server were on a dedicated CIDR LAN subnet.
>
>this is excellent news. faxing using spandsp is something we havent yet 
>experiemented with using asterisk on freebsd.
>
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