me at tdiehl.org wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, hw wrote: > >> me at tdiehl.org wrote: >>> On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, hw wrote: >>> >>>> A SPA122 ATA from Cisco might be useful as a gateway, they are cheap. >>>> You?d be using it kinda in reverse, but I don?t see why that shouldn?t >>>> be possible. >>>> >>>> Other than that, specialized cards have come down in prices, probably >>>> because ppl aren?t using them anymore. You might also want to look >>>> into Patton gateways, but they tend to be rather pricy and are a hell >>>> to set up unless you?re familiar with all the phone-related stuff. >>>> >>>> If your internet connection is decent, it might be a good idea to give >>>> up the POTS line and use a VOIP provider instead, with a asterisk >>>> connected to it. It would be the easiest way by far. >>>> >>>> Asterisk isn?t too complicated for getting basic phone services to work >>>> on which you can expand over time; you only need to overcome the few >>>> first steps. Since a Centos package for asterisk is missing, you may >>>> want to compile it yourself, which is easy. However, I had to disable >>>> one of the drivers/features of asterisk in the build config because >>>> there?s a bug that makes asterisk fail when that feature/driver is >>>> enabled --- I left everything else enabled and don?t know what most of >>>> the stuff is ... >>> >>> The http://nerdvittles.com/ stuff I referenced earlier gives you the choice >>> of Installing on Centos 6/7, Debian 8 or Raspberry PI. They even have virtual >>> box VM's available. >>> >>> See http://wable-repo.wardmundy.net/incrediblepbx/ for a list of all of the >>> choices. >> >> I?m not sure what you?re trying to say; I neither have a facebook account, nor >> a cell phone, and I don?t understand why cell phones aren?t VOIP clients that >> can simply be used with asterisk. > > I do not have a facebook account either. The first link above is simply a link > to Ward Mundy's semi weekly articles. If you scroll down the page you can > pick the articles that interest you. I ignore anything having to do with > facebook or self driving cars, etc.. Ward writes about many technical things > but tends to specialize in all things related to telephony. > > The 2nd link allows you to pick out the type of pbx that interests you and then > points you to links to his articles that instruct you how to download and build > your choice of pbx. You just have to be care not to click on the stupid ads. > > For instance http://nerdvittles.com/?p=14208 takes you to his article to build > "Introducing Incredible PBX 13 for CentOS 6 and 7" Thanks for the clarification; I did scroll down and didn´t see it ...