Hello,

I have a telephone line and I want to have a software on my FreeBSD
box, enabling me make phone calls with a real telephone. Would you
please help me provide some suggestions?

Not sure how can I configure asterisk to do this as I do not want to
make a VOIP system.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Roger

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:40:58 -0700, RLC wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a telephone line and I want to have a software on my FreeBSD box,
> enabling me make phone calls with a real telephone. Would you please
> help me provide some suggestions?

You want to do those annoying telemarketing calls?

How about you plug in your telephone into your telephone line and let
your fingers do the dialing?

>
> Not sure how can I configure asterisk to do this as I do not want to
> make a VOIP system.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> Roger

Hello,

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?

Anyway, thanks again.

Regards
Roger

On Aug 24, 4:19 pm, Speechless wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:40:58 -0700, RLC wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I have a telephone line and I want to have a software on my FreeBSD box,
> > enabling me make phone calls with a real telephone. Would you please
> > help me provide some suggestions?
>
> You want to do those annoying telemarketing calls?
>
> How about you plug in your telephone into your telephone line and let
> your fingers do the dialing?
>
>
>
> > Not sure how can I configure asterisk to do this as I do not want to
> > make a VOIP system.
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> > Regards
> > Roger

In article <7a2dee03-71af-4f23-8408-14cdab7c2cda@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
RLC wrote:
>
>
>Hello,
>
>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?
>
>Anyway, thanks again.
>
>Regards
>Roger
>

I'm not sure about European standards, but here in the US the last
time I worked on something like this (10+ years..), you had to have
a special card for your PC to interface a POTS
(Plain-Old-Telephone-Service) analog phone-line into your PC (for
anything other than using it for a modem, of course). We used cards
from Dialogic, and the only drivers were for Windows or Unixware.

It would be much cheaper and easier just to buy a second phone (about $8.00
over here..).


Ted
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>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?

How about spending 10 euros and get another phone?

That's a lot easier and cheaper than all the equipment you'll need to
interface two POTS lines and a phone to your computer.

R's,
John

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

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