I just learned about Asterisk yesterday. Besides all the cool PBX stuff that asterisk can do can it also do these: 1) Receive FAX's ? 2) Control (serve) pppd dial-in connections ? 3) Is it possible to use voice modems as the FXO/FXS cards ? Thank You -- Peter http://tkvoice.netfirms.com/
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 10:59, TkVoice Author wrote:> I just learned about Asterisk yesterday. > > Besides all the cool PBX stuff that asterisk can do can it also do these:This is where you should be looking at any and all documentation too.> 1) Receive FAX's ?Yes, very alpha at the moment judging by other peoples experiences. Sending seems less problematic.> 2) Control (serve) pppd dial-in connections ?Only if it is on an ISDN B channel, no modems.> 3) Is it possible to use voice modems as the FXO/FXS cards ?ABSOLUTELY NOT. First the modem is only a FXO device and it does a poor job at bidirectional voice. It is so bad that we do not support it here. If you desire this functionality, you will spend 4 or more times the difference in cost in of a real FXO device in the time it will take to get a voice modem to function half way. Then you will be upset at the results and time wasted. Save yourself the grief and us the next flame way by not going this route.> Thank You-- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 22:32, TkVoice Author wrote:> Thanks TC > > I will check this out. > > I did notice 1 error if anyone is concerned: > > I patched against asterisk-v0.5.0 and I got this result:You probably need to be at a more current version than 0.5.0, and you should be concerned that the offsets are so far off since this means there was major changes since the diff was made.> patch -p0 < distinctiveringpatch.diff > > patching file asterisk/channels/chan_zap.c > Hunk #1 succeeded at 134 (offset -1 lines). > Hunk #2 succeeded at 317 (offset -6 lines). > Hunk #3 succeeded at 381 (offset -1 lines). > Hunk #4 succeeded at 504 (offset -14 lines). > Hunk #5 succeeded at 3869 (offset -96 lines). > Hunk #6 succeeded at 4387 (offset -18 lines). > Hunk #7 FAILED at 4416. > Hunk #8 succeeded at 4368 (offset -98 lines). > Hunk #9 succeeded at 5256 (offset -55 lines). > Hunk #10 succeeded at 5240 (offset -100 lines). > Hunk #11 succeeded at 6786 (offset -210 lines). > Hunk #12 succeeded at 6976 (offset -100 lines). > Hunk #13 succeeded at 7254 (offset -221 lines). > Hunk #14 succeeded at 7405 (offset -100 lines). > Hunk #15 succeeded at 7377 (offset -221 lines). > 1 out of 15 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file > asterisk/channels/chan_zap.c.rej > > TC wrote: > > >You can try this hacking this patch > >http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000504 > > > >-- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>