[VoIP] For those of you who have just installed Asterisk1.4.16.2

[John Novack]

Spock71 wrote:
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>     *From:* John Novack <mailto:jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>
>     *To:* windmill <mailto:windmill at topletter.com>
>     *Cc:* Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
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>     *Sent:* Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:48 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [VoIP] For those of you who have just installed
>     Asterisk1.4.16.2
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>     */2 questions I have about 1.4.17:  Does ENUM appear to work
>     correctly in this latest release?  and, will this version work on
>     alot of older hardware, or hardware that previous versions had
>     difficulty with finding correct drivers for?/*
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I can't yet say about the ENUM working correctly
Version 1.4.13 does work, and others may be testing 1.4.17 before I get to.
As to drivers, I have never had a problem with CentOS working with most 
any hardware I have installed in on.
First version 3, then 5, other have used CentOS 4
All the Red Hat variants seem to be the most trouble free, though users 
on the Asterisk users list have reported more difficulties with Fedora 
than CentOS.
Specifically what drivers are you missing or concerned with?

The other Linux distros, such as Debian and Madriva and ??? have their 
own way of doing things and are not for the Linux novice,  in my opinion
Asterisk has specific hardware it will work with for the analog and 
T1/E1 cards, and some Digium hardware will not work with boards that do 
not follow strictly the PCI 2.2 interface. If you MB has any ISA slots, 
the TDM400 and others with the TigerJet chip set will not work, and some 
motherboards that say PCI 2.2 don't work either.
The Sangoma A200 is much more forgiving, though installing their 
software is more difficult. Sangoma has always responded and fixed 
problems though, so their support is great.
I have used CentOS, a TDM400, and Asterisk 1.2 on Pentium III 
motherboards successfully, and even have one CNET user on RH9, an X100 
card and a single board computer with an AMD K2-300 and a 10 Gig hard 
drive that I support remotely. He needed something cheap.

Hope this answers some of your questions.

John Novack

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