configuring asterisk:cheap phone?

[John covici]

Freepbx is pretty good, lynx won't work with it, but for the novice
user and even the more advanced user, its quite helpful for setting up
asterisk and you can still customize config files if you do it in the
right place.

on Friday 07/17/2009 Terry D. Cudney(terry.cudney at gmail.com) wrote
 > Hi all,
 > 
 >    It looks like there are a number of people here who are using or are interested in voip.
 >    Asterisk has a steep learning curve and I wouldn't recommend starting into it if you are only going to use it for a short time. ON the other hand, if you can justify the time to learn it, using straight asterisk 1.4/1.6 is very accessible for us bliind users. All configs are text files. Once you get a handle on it, setting up new phones/lines is very quick and easy. If you are using Debian, there is an asterisk apt package that does quite nicely fo rthe base asterisk installation.
 >    I have not looked at the numerous  graphical configuration systems (like pbxinaflash or trixbox). Perhaps some of you who have used some of these could comment on their accessibility using commandline tools/speakup.
 >    How many people here have asterisk (or other voip server) running that we could maybe set up a "blinknet" based on iax2 (or even sip)?
 > 
 >    Let's all thank Kirk for his liberality in not restricting postings here to just speakup-related topics!
 > 
 >    --terry
 > 
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