Firstly, thanks for you all.

I have a fixed telephone line from France Telecom with which I
subscribed to Orange ADSL service. Then with the Orange Livebox, I
have another telephone line. Actually it carries a conventional
telephone signal (PSTN) although it is a VOIP phone (audio signal will
be converted to IP packets via ADSL to Orange).

The problem is I need to have both telephone lines active. The one
from France Telecom, I will use it to receive calls. The other from
Orange, I will use it most frequently as I have unlimited access to
it. In order to keep both active with only one telephone, I plan to
use my laptop (IBM R60i). With a built in modem (I guess I have some
Intel modem chips on it), it should be possible to make phone calls as
under Windows. I hope my modem is not a WIN modem (a loser modem).

I will try to read Asterisk document to see if I could use it as a
virtual telephone on my laptop. Thanks for you all again.

Regards
Roger

On Aug 25, 2:07 am, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> RLC wrote:
> > Actually I had two phone numbers in my flat, one is from France
> > Telecom, the other is from Orange as I subscribed to Orange ADSL. So I
> > plug the telephone line with a physical telephone and leave the line
> > coming from Orange Live box unplugged. And I need to use the orange
> > line to make phone calls. That's all.
> > Very simple reason.
>
> > Could you please help provide some suggestions? Asterisk?
>
> One thing you can do, is set up Asterisk as ytour own little PABX, with
> your telephone lines as "city lines" or connections to the PSTN.
>
> You don't say if you phone lines are POTS (analog) or ISDN. either way,
> you'll need a card to interface with your phone line. And the card has
> to be supported in Asterisk, if that is the route you want to go.
> If you want to use ordinary phones, you will need interace cards for
> them too.
>
> FreeBSD has the zaptel[1] driver which supports a number of cards from
> Digium. I have never used one, so I can't tell you anything more about it.
> If your lines are ISDN, I guess any supported ISDN card will do.
>
> References:
> 1)http://www.freshports.org/misc/zaptel/
> --
> Torfinn Ingolfsen,
> Norway