[Asterisk-Users] configure intel modems.....

[Steve Totaro]

> Thanks Mark,
> 
> phone system is a panasonic 1232 digital hi-bread thingy.... im fairly
> privy to it and can reprogram etc. and with that, should be able to go
> ether way,
> - i thought that i could hang asterisk of one of the analog extensions
> with a voice modem.
> - the other way would be to hang it on an incoming line or CO.
> the later probably being the better solution. ether way i should be
able
> to connect both ways???

You can connect both ways but if you want to do the latter then you need
and FXS port off the asterisk box to connect and provide dialtone.

> ie. from a land line extension would be able to ring the extension
that
> asterisk is on and make asterisk call over voip.
> or with a soft phone from lappy with wireless be able to go through
> asterisk to make land line calls.
> 
> the old dell machine is a poweredge 2300, all scsi and 2x P2 350
> processors. a nice old high end server( in its day! )
> 
> im using the asterisk at home 1.3 and ill have to check(machine not on at
the
> moment)
> but you may have something with the kernel configuring the modem, i
seem
> to remember the config page during one of the startups..
> not sure, (but now that you have said that..... i can feel something
in my
> water.)
> maybe some body out there knows weather asterisk at home does configure
> modems or serial devices during startup??..
> 
> i have checked the interrupts when i was having trouble with the 2
modems
> installed, and its all cool.( and that answers prev. Question. )
> 
> im not that tight, just at the moment things are not to plan, wife
just
> spat 34week prem boy

SPAT?  Nice!

> and 2 trips to the hospital and back each day, and back to 1 income
makes
> it hard, is all....
> 
> i heard a whisper that the digium cards were actually voice modems( so
i
> though it should not be that hard ),
> and when i looked at the pics they look exactly the same.
> pics are not good enough to pick components though...

Digium no longer sells these cards.  They are modems but not "regular".
They have to be a specific chipset ambient 3200.

> 
> im not that new to Linux, have been system admin of more than 50
machines
> ( mixed win/lin) for a few years now,
> i have come to love Linux and dread windows....
> and windows seems to be getting worse, trying to keep up or ahead of
Linux
> (depends who you talk to..)
> 
> asterisk is an excellent piece of software and deserves more
attention.
> 
> thanks again Mark for your guidance, help.....i was scratching my head
> with this one....
> 
> any advice you have is much appreciated....
> 
> 
> i will check to see if the modem has been configured by the kernel,
this
> will explain why asterisk cannot see the card.
> 
> thanks again Mark..... excellent!!!
> 
> Phil
> 
>