asterisk users - Mar 2005 - FW: polycom 500 help!!

Dean,

I appreciate the suggestion.  Is it really necessary.
I've got slackware already installed on the box. (I consider myself a 
bit of a Linux guru.), all the drivers, and Asterisk.  Everything seems 
to work fine, EXCEPT getting it to talk to the extension.  wouldn't it 
be easier/faster to just adjust a few settings than to re-initialize my 
entire box.

dean collins wrote:
>If you are only new to asterisk go and download asterisk@home
>http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net
>
>It's a iso you can download that does all of the configuring and setup
>for you automatically.
>
>Cheers
>
>dean
>
>
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>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Noah
>Silverman
>Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 6:18 PM
>To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] polycom 500 help!!
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm just setting up my first Asterisk box.  So far everything is working
>
>fine.  I have the digium card in and connected to a regular telco line.
>
>The Asterisk box answers the line and goes through the demo voicemail 
>functions.  Sounds great!
>
>I bought a Polylcom ip500 phone.  I can't seem to get it to
"register"
>with the Asterisk box.  Can anybody give me some clues as to:
>1) What settings I  need in the sip.conf file.
>2) What settings I need in the Polycom phone.
>
>Thanks a million!!
>
>-N
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Noah Silverman wrote:
> Dean,
>
> I appreciate the suggestion.  Is it really necessary.
> I've got slackware already installed on the box. (I consider myself a 
> bit of a Linux guru.), all the drivers, and Asterisk.  Everything 
> seems to work fine, EXCEPT getting it to talk to the extension.  
> wouldn't it be easier/faster to just adjust a few settings than to 
> re-initialize my entire box.

Noah,

Dean pointed me towards Asterisk@Home too and I too was skeptical at 
first.  I have to say, even though
- I'm still having my Asterisk "issues" (i.e. not everything is
working
for me)
- and I'm a bit of a Linux guru
- and I had asterisk working with some primitive extensions on my own, 
pretty much exactly where you are just a smidge further...

I would recommend using Asterisk@Home.  What Dean told me (and I tend to 
believe him) is that having a box that multi-tasks (i.e. run asterisk 
and also does some other linux server tasks) is a very bad idea as you 
will have problems.  So, if you go with the premise that your box will 
an asterisk box and thats it, then using Asterisk@Home is not an issue 
as far as stomping over whatever other Linux setup you have.

I would recommend you give it a try if you can afford to have your 
current system wiped, just to see what it is like.  It certainly takes a 
lot of the "programming your dialplan" issues away - although there
are
still plenty of configs to tweak I'm finding.


Next, about your Polycom 500.  I've got a couple of those that were 
working (although I appear to have busted my setup just recently).  What 
I found is that you should tell your phone to not register and then it 
worked for me.

Do you have your ftp-server set-up and are you using the latest firmware 
and sip versions?

Don