Hello!
I’m working on a school project and the main purpose is to set up an VoIP telecom network in one of our laboratories and naturaly my first choice was Asterisk… I chose Asterisk@home because of it has the browser based administration interface and it comes with an OS (CentOS). I’m using X-lite as software SIP clients…
I’ve set-up a box for Asterisk, installed… set up a few extensions… installed X-lite… everything works great till now…
Next step is adding some analog trunks/extesions… and because i don’t have FX cards yet (FXO/FXS) i wanted to try with some modems…
I’ve put a Conexant based modem in the box (chipset: RS56/SP - PCI, R6793 - 11), at boot-up the system recognoized the new hardware and configured it (kudzu)… the i ran getzaptelconf and from what i saw it recognoized the modem as Tormenta2 PCI… i tried to set-up a trunk following the instrauction from the Asterisk@home handbook , but when tried to put a call from X-lite to that trunk all i got is: Sorry but our circuits are busy now… please try again later… also nothing happened when i tried to call the number for the line plugged into the modem…
Now… i’m not sure why it doesn’t work… i suspect several causes:
- the modem is not fit for use with asterisk
- i made a mistake when configuring the trunk or the rules for incomingoutbound calls…
- the line i used as a trunk for asterisk is actualy an extesion from the university’s own PBX
That’s about it… if you need more details let me know
Soo what do u think? Can a modem be used for interfacing analog trunks/extensions?