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Digium’s First IP Phones and Asterisk: A Perfect Combo?

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http://www.thevarguy.com – Digium is best known for promoting Asterisk, the open source IP PBX. Now, Digium is pushing out to network endpoints and introducing its first IP phones. The potential upside: channel partners can now promote complete unified communications systems from Digium — assuming the IP phones work as advertised. According to Digium: “With Digium technology on both the server and the phone, users will benefit from the best possible performance, unprecedented integration and a uniquely customizable phone system.” Digium will promote the IP phones for Asterisk servers as well as Switchv (IT news)

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If you just install Asterisk gui 2.o from: svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk-gui/branches/2.0 And got a 404 URL not found <asterisk server> typing http://ip_machine:8088/static/config/index.html and already did the “make checkconfig” cmd getting an “everything seems good” output. and already Checked in Asterisk CLI:

I have a 4 port Digium card in there, and have 4 lines running smoothly. Now, we added ANOTHER 4 port card and have 4 more analog lines coming into the Trixbox server. It still runs the 4 fine, but what do I need to do to add the additional 4 phone numbers/lines?

I want it to act exactly as before, there's nothing special about the new lines.

Asterisk is an opensource VOIP server system that works using the industrial standard SIP protocol.

I am trying to install some drivers from Digium for a piece of hardware that I have. When I try to install I am getting:

echo "You do not appear to have the sources for the 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 kernel installed." You do not appear to have the sources for the 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 kernel installed.