[Asterisk-Users] Dial command not working at CLI

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Zeeshan wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>  
> I was once able to type in Dial 200@<context> and it worked on my other
> computer, but on this computer it says "No such command 'dial'".
> Somebody told me that it had something to do with soundcard. I activated
> load => chan_oss.so in modules.conf. But when I type show modules, I
> don't see it activated.
> Please help me on making command Dial work from asterisk CLI.

If Asterisk didn't see the oss headers and libraries installed then it 
won't build chan_oss.so and it will not provide the "dial" command in 
the CLI.