Well, I've been interested in asterisk for a while. Getting a pbx distro sounds cool, though. Only issues I've had is the install. If I can get to ssh I'm good, but I don't tend to be able to get distros installed by myself, which is rather irritating. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup@xxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:04 PM Subject: Re: configuring asterisk:cheap phone? > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:01:40PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> ok, you totally lost me with some of that. I'll do some research though. >> I kind of understand some asterisk, but not much of it > > It can be a bit of a beast to setup actually, especially if > you don't have a dedicated box. If you do, you could just > install a distribution like Elastix and configure away via > the web but integrating Asterisk/FreePBX into an existing > system can be a pain. Setting up a PBX, probably not > something I'd do for a one-off trip. > > Shane > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup