[Asterisk-Dev] Embedded Asterisk

[Andy Powell]

Hi

I just thought I do a follow up on this since I haven't seen any futher posts on this for a while...

How did your meeting go Lars? Hope it all worked out... Have you got any progress reports
for us?

Thanks

Andy



On 27/10/2003 at 23:47 Lars Boegild Thomsen wrote:

>Hi Andy,
>
>Well - it would be fun to get a possibility to work on this more or less
>full time, so let's see if I can impress them :)  It works quite well
>though, so I would guess so.  Currently the only thing I can't demo is the
>MOH (lack of ztdummy) and meetme (same reason), so I'll just "forget" to
>mention those features.
>
>The allwell boxes are great except from one thing.  The
>$#@#%$^%^$&@$%#%@#%$#@&&$ CyberPro video chips does't have any working open
>source framebuffer driver available that'll enable the video output.  I
>originally got a few of these boxes for a streaming video project and that
>died more or less of the same reason.  So now I've turned it into a PBX (at
>least for the demo - I want my MP3 player back after the demo).
>
>As to your request for 2 PCI slots :)  Search and thou shall find
>(http://www.allwell.tv/Products/Set_Top_Box/STB6086N2/stb6086n2.html).  The
>Metallica box have room for 2 PCI slots and comes in an 800 MHz version
>which would be cool.  Just - the box doesn't look great as a PBX - but
>well - can't have everything.
>
>As for getting the boxes in Holland I would assume that's easier than
>getting them to Malaysia :)  And Allwell managed that about 4 days after we
>placed an order - they are pretty efficient (albeit USD 50 for shipping did
>piss me off slightly and then they labelled the shipping as electronic
>equipment against my request - which meant I had to pay duties here in
>Malaysia - pc equipment does not carry any duty).  Anyway - I think I ended
>up paying around USD 300 for the first box - including shipping, flash disk
>and a neat wireless keyboard with built-in joystick/mouse.
>
>I'll see if I can make the CVS repository accessible once I get over this
>meeting tomorrow.