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@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@ The Asterisk Open Source PBX by Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com> +and the Asterisk.org developer community + Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Digium, Inc. +and other copyright holders. ================================================================ + * SECURITY It is imperative that you read and fully understand the contents of - the SECURITY file before you attempt to configure an Asterisk server. +the SECURITY file before you attempt to configure and run an Asterisk +server. -* WHAT IS ASTERISK +* WHAT IS ASTERISK ? Asterisk is an Open Source PBX and telephony toolkit. It is, in a sense, middleware between Internet and telephony channels on the bottom, and Internet and telephony applications at the top. For more information @@ -19,7 +24,12 @@ community on this Wiki: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk -* OPERATING SYSTEMS +There is a book on Asterisk published by O'Reilly under the +Creative Commons License. It is available in book stores as well +as in a downloadable version on the http://www.asteriskdocs.org +web site. + +* SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS == Linux == The Asterisk Open Source PBX is developed and tested primarily on the @@ -41,18 +51,34 @@ ANY special hardware, not even a soundcard) to install and run Asterisk. * All Wildcard (tm) products from Digium (www.digium.com) * QuickNet Internet PhoneJack and LineJack (http://www.quicknet.net) * any full duplex sound card supported by ALSA or OSS - * ISDN4Linux compatible ISDN card * VoiceTronix OpenLine products -Hint: CAPI compatible ISDN cards can be run using the add-on channel chan_capi. +The are several drivers for ISDN BRI cards available from third party sources. +Check the voip-info.org wiki for more information on chan_capi, chan_misdn and +zaphfc. + +* UPGRADING FROM VERSION 1.0 - Second, ensure that your system contains a compatible compiler and development + If you are updating from a previous version of Asterisk, make sure you +read the UPGRADE.txt file in the source directory. There are some files +and configuration options that you will have to change, even though we +made every effort possible to maintain backwards compatibility. + + In order to discover new features to use, please check the configuration +examples in the /configs directory of the source code distribution. +To discover the major new features of Asterisk 1.2, please visit +http://www.astricon.net/asterisk1-2/ + +* NEW INSTALLATIONS + + Ensure that your system contains a compatible compiler and development libraries. Asterisk requires either the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version 3.0 or higher, or a compiler that supports the C99 specification and some of the gcc language extensions. In addition, your system needs to have the C -library headers available, and the headers and libraries for OpenSSL and zlib. +library headers available, and the headers and libraries for OpenSSL, +ncurses and zlib. On many distributions, these files are installed by packages with names like -'libc-devel', 'openssl-devel' and 'zlib-devel' or similar. +'glibc-devel', 'ncurses-devel', 'openssl-devel' and 'zlib-devel' or similar. So let's proceed: @@ -73,10 +99,10 @@ the sample PBX, with demonstration extensions, etc. If so, run: 3) "make samples" - Doing so will overwrite any existing config files you have. If you are lacking a -soundcard you won't be able to use the DIAL command on the console, though. + Doing so will overwrite any existing config files you have. - Finally, you can launch Asterisk with: + Finally, you can launch Asterisk in the foreground mode (not a daemon) +ith: # asterisk -vvvc @@ -95,6 +121,10 @@ Remember that if you don't have a full duplex sound card (and Asterisk will tell you somewhere in its verbose messages if you do/don't) then it won't work right (not yet). + "man asterisk" at the Unix/Linux command prompt will give you detailed +information on how to start and stop Asterisk, as well as all the command +line options for starting Asterisk. + Feel free to look over the configuration files in /etc/asterisk, where you'll find a lot of information about what you can do with Asterisk. @@ -196,12 +226,14 @@ that starts Asterisk. * MORE INFORMATION - See the doc directory for more documentation. + See the doc directory for more documentation on various features. Again, +please read all the configuration samples that include documentation on +the configuration options. Finally, you may wish to visit the web site and join the mailing list if you're interested in getting more information. - http://www.asterisk.org/index.php?menu=support + http://www.asterisk.org/support Welcome to the growing worldwide community of Asterisk users! |