[asterisk-users] Auto Detect

[David Backeberg]

you have asked several questions that have little or nothing to do
with asterisk. Perhaps you should purchase some consulting time from a
linux admin, join your local Linux Users Group, or at least ask your
questions in a newbies forum for the version of linux you have
chosen...

If you insist on doing this yourself, recognize that you will get back
only what you're willing to put in. Please consider going to a good
public library and reading a general guide to getting started with
linux. If your local public library doesn't have these titles, ask
about interlibrary loans with the librarian on duty. I recommend
O'Reilly books, specifically:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100292/

When you have a better understanding of unix and linux, I recommend
you browse through the O'Reilly guide to Asterisk, referred to by me
as the starfish book:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510480/index.html

Now regarding hardware, various linux distributions handle this
differently. CentOS and other flavors of linux generally support the
command:
/sbin/lspci
you will need to become root,
and type
"lspci"
and this will list much of the hardware in your system, but it won't
list USB devices and some other peripherals like printers. If you're
coming from the Windows world, there's no such thing as "Control
Panel's hardware list". If this is for a business and you're working
on a short deadline, you're going to find this process very
frustrating and you should hire somebody yesterday rather than trying
to aggregate the years of linux knowledge, as well as
asterisk-specific know-how that people like me have accumulated.

If you want the "easy way out" and know how to click things, you may
find joy with projects including:
webmin
FreePBX

However, webmin only gets you most of the way to administering your
linux machine, and FreePBX will get you started with asterisk but will
give you just enough rope to hang yourself once you try to do
something custom and complicated. If you need to write very custom,
business-critical apps, you need a consultant or a lot of patience to
bring yourself up-to-speed.

Why did you pick CentOS? CentOS is not a good place for a new linux
user to start. I'm not convinced you made an informed decision, and
I'm thinking you should start over again with Ubuntu, which is more
user-friendly for a beginner, and has several Ubuntu-specific getting
started manuals at any self-respecting big-box book seller, like B&N
and Borders. Ubuntu also has excellent forums for new linux users.

Good luck, and welcome back when you have enough of a handle on your
linux administration to move on to configuring asterisk.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:54 AM, David @ULC <ucoms2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Which command to run which will auto detect all hardwares present in the
> system ?
> OS : CentOS
> Running Asterisk
>
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