[Asterisk-Users] Newbie Instalation

[Trevor Tregoweth]

Hi, 

Thanks for the pointers, I will do a reinstall and see how I go.

I am presuming that this program will work with just the  "x-lite" and no
others phone related hardware.

I am just wanting to get it working from pc to pc to start with, then will
attach the next step of going to a live phone line

Cheers
Trevor

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Yair Hakak
Sent: Friday, 25 March 2005 8:41 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie Instalation

Hi,
 a few pointers:

1. the wiki is your friend:
   http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk
   lots of good stuff and good documents for getting started. If i were you
i might reinstall asterisk from CVS just to make sure you have the latest
version, and because this way you can learn about installing. In general
asterisk usually runs on a machine without x-windows so doing everything
from a command-line window might also help with the learning, rather than
being dependent on prepackaging.

2. did you install asterisk with the example configs (make samples)?
asterisk is dependent on a directory of config files (usually
/etc/asterisk) and make samples populates the dir with some basic config
files.

3.make sure that the x-lite that you want to register is defined in sip.conf
and extensions.conf

4. configure x-lite using the following:

http://www.astmasters.net/stuff/X-Lite-and-Asterisk.pdf

5. run asterisk in verbose mode (asterisk -r vvvvvgc) so you can see what's
happening

You're in for quite a learning experience...hope this has been helpful.
good luck and good hunting.

-yair

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:21:57 +1030, Trevor Tregoweth <trevor at bitmore.net>
wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks for the wonderful advice, and comments, and anything I might of 
> missed, and no offence taken.
> 
> Yes I am new to this program, and Linux too, so this is a big learning 
> curve.
> 
> I installed the software "Asterisk" which I believed it did straight 
> from the cd, rebooted the computers, and it installed more stuff.
> 
> I am then lead to believe that I can use "x-lite" a phone interface, I 
> guess, to interact with the new pabx-asterisk system I now have.
> 
> I can see from the gui interface that I am trying to make calls, but 
> that's about it, not much else is happening
> 
> Well if you want to know much more, please ask, as I have no idea what I
am
> doing   :)
> 
> You help and direction would be much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers
> Trevor
> 
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