[Voyage-linux] Voyage, Asterisk, Soekris Net4801

[Stagg Shelton]

Hello,

I have been looking into different distributions to use for an asterisk 
PBX on a Soekris net4801.  I tried astlinux, but got really frusterated 
with the whole readonly nature of that system, and also had many 
difficulties getting stuff into it and working, such as AMP.  I started 
looking around last week for another distribution, and was about to try 
to make pebble linux work when I stumbled onto voyage.  Anyways, I'm not 
here to write a novel, I wanted to let you know what I have accomplished 
this week.

I have successfully implemented asterisk 1.2.4, zaptel 1.2.4, libpri 
1.2.2, addons 1.2.1, sounds 1.2.1, and a Digium TE110P single span T1/E1 
on my net4801 with voyage-0.2pre4.  I'm also running freePBX (formerly 
Asterisk Management Portal), apache2, php4.  Mysql Server is running on 
a remote server that this system will have access to.  I'm using a 4GB 
microdrive so disk capacity and disk writes shouldn't be an issue.  
Downside to microdrive is that I now have a mechanical device in an 
otherwise solid-state system. 

I had to make a new kernel to get some things in zaptel to work 
correctly, and to have the kernel built for the processor in the net4801.

I read on the website that asterisk was one of the goals for this 
distribution to take on.  I would like to contribute back what I have 
learned, and the kernel configuration changes that I made, but don't 
really know how to do that, so I figured this list would be a good place 
to start.

Stagg Shelton
www.oneringnetworks.com