[Asterisk-Users] Just getting started...

[Michael Van Donselaar]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:48:05 -0500 (EST), Rick Green <rtg at aapsc.com> wrote:

>Last night, I attended a presentation on asterix by Greg Boehnlein, and I
>caught the bug.  Today, I've spent the day reading, downloading, and
>trying to get started.  Watch out for the first step, its a doozey!
>
>I have no hardware(FXO, FXS ports, VoIP phones) as yet, so I'm trying to
>move forward with just the commodity stuff I have on hand.
>
>Here's my current plan:
>
>1) Install and learn an IAX 'softphone' application.  I have some minimal
>experience with ohphone, which I hope will translate to an IAX softphone.
>

I think that iaxComm is currently the only other iax softphone for linux
http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/index.html

>So here I'm stuck.  There were no documentation files in the .rpm, nor on
>the website.  The README consists only of "We released it, Hooray!".  Is
>this worth pursuing?  Is there another IAX softphone application out
>there?  Greg mentioned in his talk a 'firefly IAX stack' but a google
>search tells me that is a windows app.  Not an option.

It's much better documented than gnophone: there's a README *and* a QUICKSTART

OK, so the documentation isn't that fantastic, but there are some screenshots on
the web page.