asterisk users - May 2003 - Examples of using console as "normal channel?"

I would like to take advantage of my soundcard/OSS system but so far 
haven't come on to examples of what the specs would look like, 
particularly for bridging a call onto the console.

Also I wonder whether the kernel version of OSS works all right for 
this, as opposed to the "official" OSS commercial product.

Thanks in advance for any pointers that might be forthcoming.

B.