Open Computing for Geeks

With the Release of Debian Lenny, here are some instructions to use mISDN with Asterisk 1.4 released with this distribution.

Here is a great guide to install every S0/T0 card with Asterisk :
http://www.beronet.com/downloads/card_installation_guide.pdf

Install Debian 5.0 Lenny by Net Install : http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst

Activate the Universe/Multiverse packages and backports updates in Synaptics Settings/Repositories.

Install build packages :
# su -
# apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic flex cvs svn libncurses5-dev devscripts fakeroot
# apt-get build-dep asterisk
# exit

Make a directory for the stuff :
# mkdir asterisk_misdn
# cd asterisk_misdn

Get source and patch for Asterisk :
# apt-get source asterisk

Install the mISDN stuff :
# wget http://www.misdn.org/downloads/releases/mISDN-1_1_9.1.tar.gz
# tar xfz mISDN-1_1_9.1.tar.gz
# cd mISDN-1_1_9.1
# make
# su -
# make install && exit
# wget http://www.misdn.org/downloads/releases/mISDNuser-1_1_9.1.tar.gz
# tar xvf mISDNuser-1_1_9.1.tar.gz
# cd mISDNuser-1_1_9.1
# make
# su -
# make install && exit

Rebuild Asterisk packages with mISDN inside :
# cd asterisk*
# debuild
# sudo dpkg -i ../asterisk_*.deb
# sudo apt-get -f install

mISDN is installed, configure it :

# sudo /etc/init.d/mISDN config
edit /etc/misdn.conf
# sudo /etc/init.d/mISDN start

Add an SIP phone user/password inf sip.conf.

Add an entry for this user in voicemail.com.

Configure a Softphone/Hardphone to connect to your server.

Try to call the demo extension with your SoftPhone.

Try to add a rule to output tu your ISDN lines.

Everything works !