FW: [Asterisk-Users] polycom 500 help!!

[Noah Silverman]

Don,

Thanks.

I've got a box that is dedicated only for Asterisk.  It has a new 
Slackware installation and nothing else running.
I installed and build the Digium and Asterisk drivers from source.

I can get the phones to load their configuration via FTP.  That works 
perfectly.

My problem is that I can't seem to get the phone and Asterisk to 
communicate with each other.

Any ideas??

-N





Don Murray wrote:

> Noah Silverman wrote:
>
>> Dean,
>>
>> I appreciate the suggestion.  Is it really necessary.
>> I've got slackware already installed on the box. (I consider myself a 
>> bit of a Linux guru.), all the drivers, and Asterisk.  Everything 
>> seems to work fine, EXCEPT getting it to talk to the extension.  
>> wouldn't it be easier/faster to just adjust a few settings than to 
>> re-initialize my entire box.
>
>
>
> Noah,
>
> Dean pointed me towards Asterisk at Home too and I too was skeptical at 
> first.  I have to say, even though
> - I'm still having my Asterisk "issues" (i.e. not everything is 
> working for me)
> - and I'm a bit of a Linux guru
> - and I had asterisk working with some primitive extensions on my own, 
> pretty much exactly where you are just a smidge further...
>
> I would recommend using Asterisk at Home.  What Dean told me (and I tend 
> to believe him) is that having a box that multi-tasks (i.e. run 
> asterisk and also does some other linux server tasks) is a very bad 
> idea as you will have problems.  So, if you go with the premise that 
> your box will an asterisk box and thats it, then using Asterisk at Home 
> is not an issue as far as stomping over whatever other Linux setup you 
> have.
>
> I would recommend you give it a try if you can afford to have your 
> current system wiped, just to see what it is like.  It certainly takes 
> a lot of the "programming your dialplan" issues away - although there 
> are still plenty of configs to tweak I'm finding.
>
>
> Next, about your Polycom 500.  I've got a couple of those that were 
> working (although I appear to have busted my setup just recently).  
> What I found is that you should tell your phone to not register and 
> then it worked for me.
>
> Do you have your ftp-server set-up and are you using the latest 
> firmware and sip versions?
>
> Don
>
>
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