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The owner of my company just asked me for an Asterisk brochure. Has anyone seen such a creature? I know of some really informative websites, but I think a pdf would be priceless at this point. Thanks, Bob McDowell EMAIL PRIVELEGED & CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT COMMUNICATION    *** PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT COMMUNICATION *** This e-mail message and all attachments, if any, may

I'd like to use native moh instead of with mpg123... for some reason the processes never bloody die. For native moh to not spawn an external player, I'd need to convert the default supplied moh sound files in /var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3 to ulaw and g729 format. Anyone know of a free, easy way to convert them? Thanks, Doug.

I realize that this isn't the biz list, so I'll make this short. If you have a good vendor of IP hardware that you'd recommend someone check out, please send me their info off-list. My e-mail is 'bmcdowell@federalprotection.com'. Any tips would be much appreciated. Thanks, Bob McDowell

I ran into a weird one last night. If I use 'service asterisk start' I have problems (see below). If I exclusively use 'asterisk -vvvvvvvvvvvvc' everything works normally. It happens like this: 1) 'service asterisk start' 2) Use asterisk normally, etc, etc - eventually change something that requires a restart 3) Issue either a CLI 'stop now' or a 'service

My Asterisk server believes that a Digium TE405P and sound are incompatible. Basically, no matter what else I do to the machine it terms of hardware, if the TE405P is installed, none of the playback/background/etc commands work. MOH works fine. So far, I have tried: 1) Seven different PCI soundcards with different chipsets. (Go go Computer Junk Store!) 2) Disabling each and every device

I think I'm very close to getting IAXModem and Hylafax going, but my current inbound hylafax logs show this: Feb 23 10:09:37.98: [ 3638]: MODEM <Empty line> Feb 23 10:09:37.98: [ 3638]: MODEM TIMEOUT: waiting for v.21 carrier Two questions - 1) Does anyone know what step I missed here? (I.e. please help!) 2) Is there a document I should be working off of? Google doesn't seem to

I''ve just finished upgrading both of my test hosts from XCP 1.0 to XCP 1.1, and the pool master is fine and happy. The second host, however, isn''t. To be perfectly clear, I didn''t ''upgrade'' that one, but had installed something else in the interim, so I did a fresh install of XCP 1.1. Anyway when attempting to get it to join the pool, I get an error

While I'm thinking about it, is anyone else out there using podget or something similar to do news/weather playback? It's a neat idea, and I'd like to showcase it as a feature that the old Nortel just didn't even come close to doing... Thanks, Bob McDowell

When you type 'help' from the CLI, it says nothing about 'quit' - or at least not between 'no debug channel' and 'realtime load'. Google told me about it, and I probably should have guessed, but still... Who do I report this to? Bob McDowell

Does anyone know if their are rules that this list is supposed to be following? It doesn't appear to be moderated, so I realize that such rules would be self-enforced, but it still might be good to agree on some. Likewise, we could agree on none. That works also. Any thoughts? Some suggestions: 1) Be polite at all times. Imagine your grandmother reads this list. 2) If you can't be

Perhaps a page on the wiki would work? We could set the ground rules similar to other industries: no names, nothing more defining than a region, the number of units, etc. Would that be useful? For example, I can describe this organization as a security company in Southwest Missouri using asterisk with 60 sets and 16 lines. When you strip off my name and email, it gets a little less certain

When my Asterisk box is called from my company's standard type of phone, it does not detect normal button presses on the keypad. You can use the phone's 'touch tones' feature to send data to the box, but that is a bit cumbersome. My Norstar voicemail system (that is being replaced) does not have this limitation. Is there anything I can do on the Asterisk side? Thanks, Bob

Forget the sound card. It isn't related. The subject above should have read 'TE405P No Voice Problem' or something similar. It appears to be a zaptel timing issue, but I have found a workaround. For those of you just tuning in, here is the story: I have a CentOS/Intel 865 box currently running Asterisk 1.2.7.1 and zap 1.2.5, both compiled from the source available off the main