On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Marshall <marshall@cal-net.org> wrote:
Steve,
I look forward to a logic answer as to why EVB and ACID are being
basically forced, and why nobody writes a simple howto or script to get
Asterisk, libpri, Zaptel/DAHDI from Digium's servers, and build from
source.
Instead of complaining about this, why don't you do all the work and write the scripts for the HAM community.
Be a solution to the problem, not the cause.
Everyone always wants to complain, but no one ever wants to take the time to help out of fix problems.
Lots of folks have put a ton of time and personal money into this project and have been nice enough to share this work with the HAM community and not ask for monetary compensation. Don't complain about something you get for FREE!
Like the old saying goes, "If you see something broken, FIX IT!"
73
Marshall - ke6pcv
(snipped for overuse of whitespace) This is not a HAM community, it is an Asterisk based repeater community. I have it in use for commercial non HAM operations that you as a HAM are restricted from. As far as money goes, yeah, the defunct Dingotel company probably put in most of the effort and money for the idea to be ripped off. The URI is most likely infringing on a patent or several but that is besides the point. I am precipitating the fix, not creating the problem. What problem have I created? Again, why so much pushback? I paid for three URIs, that was in U$D, so much for free. Now I expect to be able to us that hardware on the OS/platform of my choosing. Am I out off line? "Like the old saying goes, "If you see something broken, FIX IT!"" I was not complaining, just asking logical questions. Try logic over emotion sometime, you might live longer... at least try opening your mind a bit, good advice for everyone. Since when is asking what the logic of be corralled into anything complaining? If there is a logical answer rather than vague answers such as "a labor of love" and "difficult to do", then I am open to hearing it, otherwise it is propaganda to someone's agenda. I logically want to be clear which it is. HOWTO: 1. Install your favorite flavor of Linux and configure it your way, optimize your way, secure your way. 2. Install prerequisites for Asterisk 3. Go into /usr/src directory on your linux box # cd /usr/src 4. b) Download the latest SVN stable release of libpri and zaptel and Jim's branch # svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/libpri/branches/1.4 libpri-1.4 # svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/zaptel/branches/1.4 zaptel-1.4 # svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/team/jdixon/chan_usbradio-1.4/ asterisk_usbradio 5. cd into each of the above directories and read any READMEs or similar all caps files. 6. cd into libpri-1.4 # make clean # make && make install 7. cd into zaptel-1.4 # make clean # make && make install 8. cd into asterisks_usbradio # make clean # ./configure # "make menuselect" and make the selections you want. # make && make install 9. Edit required files 10. Start Asterisk on the console with core dump on and a bit of verbose # asterisk -vvvvvvvvvvvgc Someone please test this as I have, and post to the websites pushing EVB or ACID. Thanks, Steve Totaro