Complex software to do simple things
For some reason I’ve gotten the hair in my arse again to play with that newfangled VoIP crap again. So I borrowed a Cisco 7912 from work and got it working with Asterisk 1.4.5. I have had a NuFone account for ages so I can assure you that it works when connecting out to another IAX2 system. Hooray.
So a while back I bought a clone Digium X100P FXO interface (this connects my normal old POTS line to the system so I can use it for VoIP stuffs). I threw that in apollo and tried to build the drivers.
Well what the fuck Linux. I havn’t had USB support compiled into this box because it’s a server and I don’t use any USB stuff with it. Of course the Zaptel driver pack (1.4.3) REQUIRES the kernel to be built with USB support before it will build the PCI modules.
Sigh.
make menuconfig, make modules, make modules_install, make clean, make make install… blah blah blah… done!
Ok, modprobe…
Zapata Telephony Interface Registered on major 196
Zaptel Version: 1.4.3
Zaptel Echo Canceller: MG2
wcfxo: DAA mode is ‘FCC’
Found a Wildcard FXO: Generic Clone
Well it’s about damn time. More later if this thing even works now.
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