HI,<br><br>My understanding is that the modem won't work. I believe asterisk does not support. <br><br>I wonder why you do not have the built in ethernet in your motherboard. You can spare your PCI slot for a proper FXO card and use USB-to-ethernet<br>
<br>For a PCI FXO card, the cheapest will be X100 but be aware of the quality and compatibility. Or a better choice will be TDM400<br><br>Other alternative:<br>Get a USB-FXO from Sangoma, expensive<br>Get a working SPA3000 as FXO --- cheapest I believe<br>
Get a OBi100, out of stock at the moment. I also want to try<br><br>Hope this is of help to you<br><br>CK<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Stuart Longland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:redhatter@gentoo.org">redhatter@gentoo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I've tried researching this, and so far, have struggled to find any<br>
contemporary information on the issue, so I do apologise if asking this<br>
irritates people who have answered this before.<br>
<br>
I have managed to set up Asterisk 1.8 on the web server here. I have<br>
two softphones (Ekiga) able to communicate with it. So far so good.<br>
I'm now curious to see if I can link it with the PSTN phone line here.<br>
<br>
The web server in question is an Intel Atom system with a Mini-ITX<br>
motherboard. Its one and only PCI slot is occupied by a PCI ethernet<br>
card. So FXO card is not an option even if it were within budget.<br>
<br>
My options therefore look to be an external FXO device of some<br>
description (Ethernet or USB), or to use a voice modem. I fear external<br>
FXOs are going to be even more expensive than internal FXO cards.<br>
<br>
Now, I have here an old Maestro JetStream 56k modem here that does<br>
amongst other things, voice comms, and I have used it in the past as a<br>
telephone by plugging a headset into the front of it (and it was full<br>
duplex too if I recall correctly). I have also used it as an answering<br>
machine, with the audio being transmitted digitally over the RS232<br>
link. So that to me suggests it is possible to get audio in to and out<br>
of the modem, either via a sound card or using the serial port. The web<br>
server has a sound card too (hard not to buy a motherboard with one<br>
these days).<br>
<br>
Apart from the lack of any hardware signal processing, it seems all the<br>
components are there. The server isn't particularly heavily loaded, and<br>
thus I see no reason why the machine wouldn't theoretically be able to<br>
handle the DSP in software … I've seen lesser hardware do quite<br>
sophisticated DSP in real-time.<br>
<br>
Now, I've hunted high and low for where this is configured. Some<br>
mailing list threads point me to the nonexistant<br>
/etc/asterisk/modems.conf. One points me to /etc/asterisk/phone.conf,<br>
but nothing there jumps out at me as being an obvious means for<br>
configuring a modem — nor can I find where it's documented on the<br>
Asterisk wiki.<br>
<br>
Where abouts should I look for documentation on configuring these modules?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
--<br>
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...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.<br>
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