I am new to Asterisk and Digium card implementation issues. My VAR is strongly recommending using Apple hardware and Yellow Dog Linux for my telephony project, because of his familiarity with this OS. Is the PowerPC an appropriate and stable hardware platform for Digium/Asterisk development? Charles Hatchette chatchette@generalcare.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20031105/5c2603a1/attachment.htm
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Charles Hatchette wrote:> I am new to Asterisk and Digium card implementation issues. My VAR is > strongly recommending using Apple hardware and Yellow Dog Linux for my > telephony project, because of his familiarity with this OS. Is the PowerPC > an appropriate and stable hardware platform for Digium/Asterisk development?I don't know if the drivers for the cards have been tested on ppc machines. -- Dave Weis "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment djweis@sjdjweis.com of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."- James Madison
>I am new to Asterisk and Digium card implementation issues. My VAR >is strongly recommending using Apple hardware and Yellow Dog Linux >for my telephony project, because of his familiarity with this OS. >Is the PowerPC an appropriate and stable hardware platform for >Digium/Asterisk development? > >Charles Hatchette ><mailto:chatchette@generalcare.com>chatchette@generalcare.comI seem to recall in the last eight months that someone declared Macs would work with Digium hardware. Search the -users and -dev archives for "yellow dog" or PPC to see what you get. JT
I have been running asterisk on an old PowerMac 9600 and YellowDog Linux for about a year now. Asterisk software builds fine most of the time - there seem to be some trivial issues with the Makefiles for codecs at the moment. I have an X100P card as the PSTN interface. I suspect that the interface cards are likely to be your biggest problem - drivers supporting big endian systems are needed. I don't know whether all the Digium drivers do. ISDN cards from AVM and Eicon are not suitable for PPC Linux. Iain --On Wednesday, November 5, 2003 9:17 am -0700 Charles Hatchette <chatchette@generalcare.com> wrote:> > I am new to Asterisk and Digium card implementation issues. My VAR is > strongly recommending using Apple hardware and Yellow Dog Linux for my > telephony project, because of his familiarity with this OS. Is the > PowerPC an appropriate and stable hardware platform for Digium/Asterisk > development? > Charles Hatchette > chatchette@generalcare.com