[Asterisk-Users] How do i "talk" to the IAXy...? (Newbie Alert)

[Daiku]

Hi,

hoping that experienced hands will quickly show me the right way: after a
fruitless web search i am turning to this list with my rather elementary
question: is there any other way to communicate with the IAXy besides using
special utility software that needs to be compiled under UNIX?

Here is the story: about two months ago, after some not very satisfactory
attempts at using SIP (my phone adapter and router don't seem to be able to
handle SIP's special requirements for free passage through umpteen ports),
i decided to try out hat i think is the conceptually better alternative
anyway, IAX, and signed up with "Diamondcards", a phone service provider
using the IAX protocol. And today the post office delivered the IAXy
adapter that i ordered from Digium (i had it shipped surface mail since i
live in Okinawa and would have had to pay ovcer 50 bucks for air delivery).

To my surprise there was no manual, not even a single sheet with
instructions, in the package, but i quickly found a setup guide on Digium's
website. However, i can't make much sense of the rather sparse instructions
about "provisioning" the box (what's the difference between "configuring"
and "provisioning"?). All i want to do is to tell the device my user ID, my
password, and the server i want to connect to, but, as i found out at
http://ruk.ca/article/2501 , "while the Sipura unit has a friendly
web-based configuration tool, the IAXy requires compiling a small Unix
utility which is then used to provision the IAXy".

Well, my two computers are Macs from the OS 7 era, so there is no way i can
compile or run that utility to talk to the IAXy. And although i played
around a bit with the telephone and even got the dial tone to come up once
by punching some random number on the keypad, i am not optimistic that it
is actually possible to configure the IAXy via the telephone's key pad - i
couldn't find anything about this topic on the web.

So... how can i get the IAXy to work?

Thank you in advance: H. Daiku

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