[VoIP] Patches

[Ian Jolly]

I couldn't agree more with you John!!   We've been putting similar 
information on the CNET-UK-I website for beginners. But you guys are way 
ahead of us in understanding both Linux and Asterisk.

I'm sat here with a new PC with serial SATA hard drive that will not accept 
the old "UK" combination of Fedora Core 4 and Asterisk 1.2.x (fairly early 
but it is a working combination!).  I've got a Sanogoma A200 with 4FXS/4FXO. 
The more I read the more confusing it gets :-)  There seems to be a complete 
'Linux' language with little explanation of it.

Fedora is up to Fedora 7 and as you say, Asterisk is up to 1.2.17 and I 
believe that Asterisk 1.4.x is said to be out of Beta and a Stable edition 
now.

In the US, you seem to use Centos.

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions !!

It is just puzzling which way to go - particularly as I want to use the 'NZ 
reverse dial' patch that Russ has come up with for my nice 'new' ivory old 
bakelite NZ telephone with its +64 phone number whose numbering is based on 
the use of a 'reverse' dial.

Incidentally, the first 'Oslo dial' telephone I've ever seen on eBay  is 
currently for sale in Canada - eBay item No 220095311266   - bid now to use 
Russ's patch !! :-)

Ian Jolly
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Novack" <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>
To: "Voice Over IP" <voip at ckts.info>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:19 PM
Subject: [VoIP] Patches


> Back in late Feb, Russ posted some patches to Zaptel and Asterisk for
> several items, including Oslo and NZ dials and early opening of the
> audio channel to hear pulsing
> The current version of Zaptel and Asterisk have  progressed, as of
> today, at least, to 1.2.16 and 1.2.17
> I have finally been able to obtain the modified driver for my T1 card
> and am now current ,
> I see in the patches references to 1.2.13 for Zaptel, and have to wonder
> if this will fail on 1.2.16
> Remember that SOME of us aren't well versed in Linux or applying the
> patches, so perhaps someone could post a short tutorial on applying
> patches and any modifications necessary for the later versions.
> Remember this needs to be "for dummies". Or at least for those of us
> that don't eat,drink and sleep Linux.
>
> John Novack