[asterisk-users] Beginning to use Asterisk and tests with extensions

[Daniel Bareiro]

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Hi all!

This is my first message to the list/newsgroup.

This weekend and after to have fought by some time with my soundcard
with respecto to the voice capture, after assuring to have solved that
problem, I installed Asterisk on Debian GNU/Linux Lenny. 

I made my installation on a KVM virtual machine. In order to begin and
according to I could see on the basis of which I was reading in
Internet, to make a basic installation initially it would be enough with
the packages 'asterisk' and 'libpri', reason why those were these that I
installed at the moment. But correct to me, if I'm mistaken, please.

However, the following basic step would be to test with extensions and
since in my house I only have a PC that use like workstation, is some
"complicated" to test of calls :-) Whatever happens, I installed Twinkle
from Debian GNU/Linux repositories. But to make a valid test would need
another PC with softphone or "something" that allows me to call to a
conventional telephone.

For this I, read in some documents that the ATAs are mentioned (bah, I
believe that the denomination "ATA" is something own of CISCO and
perhaps most appropriate is to call it as Adapters for Analogical
Telephones), that allows to connect a conventional telephone to a VoIP
network of way to be able to send and to receive calls having an
Ethernet connector to connect it to the LAN. What not yet it is clear to
me of these ATAs is how they works. I have understood that it have its
own IP and the one of PBX server, but if we have, for example, two FXS
ports connecting to each of them to a conventional telephone, in the
documentation that I found at the moment is not mentioned some way to
associate the ports of the conventional telephones with a number of
extension so that the ATA knows how to route an incoming call.

The other alternative is to use a OpenVOX card, for example, but I'm not
sure if this solution is worth to me because if I install it in the PC
where I have the virtual machine with the Asterisk, I'm not sure if the
KVM virtual machine can access to that underlying hardware.

Thanks in advance and with the time I hope to be gaining knowledge also
to be able to make some contribution to the list/newsgroup.

Regards,
Daniel

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