asterisk users - May 2010 - Connecting 1-2 GSM ports to asterisk?

Hi, List,
I am looking for a cheapest (and therefore most funny) way to attach
GSM card to my asterisk home box.
Needed features:
Calls+SMS in/out
one or two SIM cards (ports)

Should I try looking for a GSM PCI card that is compatible with
linux/asterisk, or GSM USB card, or modern full-blown SIP GSM gateway
(with ethernet)? Maybe an ordinary cell phone with USB interface and
mangling with asterisk is more reasonable? ;)

If it's 20$ difference, interenet (3G/GPRS/EDGE...) ability over
gateway would be nice. Why? 3 more nights of funny games and headbangs
+ theoretical network failover (hmm since half a year my home has 100%
connectivity, tested with nagios. But for the record - I have GSM
failover...) :-)

What are the options? Any phones I should avoid?
Maybe anyone of you have done something by yourself? :)

Best wishes, have a nice weekend!
Motiejus

Hello!

You can try with a bluetooth usb dongle and a bluetooth phone.
something called chan_mobile. You can get a cheap solution!

have a look.

Regards!

On 21-05-2010 15:19, Motiejus Jak?tys wrote:
> Hi, List,
> I am looking for a cheapest (and therefore most funny) way to attach
> GSM card to my asterisk home box.
> Needed features:
> Calls+SMS in/out
> one or two SIM cards (ports)
>
> Should I try looking for a GSM PCI card that is compatible with
> linux/asterisk, or GSM USB card, or modern full-blown SIP GSM gateway
> (with ethernet)? Maybe an ordinary cell phone with USB interface and
> mangling with asterisk is more reasonable? ;)
>
> If it's 20$ difference, interenet (3G/GPRS/EDGE...) ability over
> gateway would be nice. Why? 3 more nights of funny games and headbangs
> + theoretical network failover (hmm since half a year my home has 100%
> connectivity, tested with nagios. But for the record - I have GSM
> failover...) :-)
>
> What are the options? Any phones I should avoid?
> Maybe anyone of you have done something by yourself? :)
>
> Best wishes, have a nice weekend!
> Motiejus
>
>    

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Le 21/05/2010 16:19, Motiejus Jak?tys a ?crit :
> Hi, List,
> I am looking for a cheapest (and therefore most funny) way to attach
> GSM card to my asterisk home box.
>    
Have a look at chan_mobile (bluetooth connection)

-- 
Daniel