1. I loaded Asterisk@Home but only CentOS loaded not Asterisk. What happened?

The auto load process that is part of Asterisk@Home will only work if your CD ROM is on IDE bus 1 or 2. If it’s SCSI or another bus it won’t load. You can do the following.

Log in as root
mount /dev/cdrom (or whatever your CD is called)
cd /var/aah_load
tar xvfz /mnt/cdrom/asteriskathome.tar.gz
./install_all.sh

This will have the same effect as the normal load process.

2. I tried to install Asterisk@Home on my XXXX pc and it says it don't support my system.

Asterisk at Home is based on RHEL 3 Linux. RHEL 3 does not support many older systems. You should have at least a 300MHz PII. This may have been an oversight on my part but most of the info I have read on Asterisk says it does not run well on systems slower than this. Besides look on e-bay a Dell Optiplex GX1, a great Linux and Asterisk box with good hardware support, sells for $34USD (buy it now)! Seems like a worthwhile investment for Asterisk/Linux experimentation.

If you really want to use Asterisk on slower hardware try Debian Linux it runs on almost anything and has good Asterisk support.

3. I can’t connect to my network from Asterisk@Home

You can try the netconfig command. You can use netconfig to configure your network manually. You can check to see if your card is supported by RHEL. If it isn’t you might have to compile a driver for it (yuck!). Your best bet is to use generic hardware that is known to work well with Linux (see above) you could also buy a network card that works with Linux (3com work well)

4. I would like to use my strange ISDN/TAPI/PSTN/VOIP/phone thingy with Asterisk can you help?

Asterisk@Home is designed to be a starting off point for Asterisk-based experimentation. It supports some basic hardware. But beyond that try www.voip-info.org or the Asterisk Mailing list

http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users. These resources will help you get just about any type of telephone interface known to man working with Asterisk!

5. On the first bootup Asterisk@Home hangs trying to start the runonce process why?

The runonce process is actually the process that installs Asterisk. It takes a long time because it is compiling Asterisk from source. I find this to be the best way to install Asterisk. This will only happen the first time Asterisk@Home boots. runonce can take 30-40 minutes on a slower machine!

6. I just bought a X100P one port FXO card how do I hook it up?

Try running the auto-config script from command line. Type genzaptelconf this will autoconfig Digium FXO and FXS cards.