Asterisk@Home

Tips 2

• Possibly look into using GUI front end from Forums
• To get help on the command line, type "help-aah".
• The user to use to log into the "Asterisk Management Portal" is user "maint".

Installation

To install Asterisk@Home I first installed the Digium Wildcard X100P FXO PCI card I bought on ebay. Then I burned the asterisk@home 0.6 ISO image to CD and installed it on my new Shuttle XPC SN41G2V3 Duron system.

I then followed instructions at: http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/install_doc.html

My ethernet card was not recognized. If I did "ifconfig eth0" it said:
eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

The "lspci" command indicated it knew the ethernet controller was there. So, I asked for help at http://experts-exchange.com and they helpfully pointed me to the linux driver:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0301

I burned the driver script to CD and ran it using:
mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
sh NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0301-pkg1.run

I then edited /etc/modules.conf and added the line:
alias eth0 nvnet

Now ethernet works! Hooray!

Next, make modifications specified at:
http://www.digium.com/downloads/hw_article


LINKS:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?max_rows=25&style=ultimate&offset=25&forum_id=420324
http://voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk
http://www.asteriskpbx.com/index.php?menu=support
http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/handbook/index.html