After finishing my previous post I decided to also write a small how-to about configuring Asterisk and flashing the cisco 7912G with the SIP firmware.
Ingredients for today are:
| A cisco 7912G IP phone | [Get it here] or [here] |
| SIP firmware for the 7912G phone | [Get it here] or [here] |
| Asterisk package for OpenWrt | ipkg install asterisk |
| Asterisk voicemail package for OpenWRT | ipkg install asterisk-voicemail |
| Asterisk sounds package for OpenWRT | ipkg install asterisk-sounds |
| A small amount of time |
I had purchased a while ago a Asus WL500g Deluxe and decided to flash the thing with OpenWRT.
At first, I only wanted to let the thing bridge with a wireless access point (WDS) but when I noticed I could enhance the functionality of the router with asterisk I flashed the device and installed asterisk. Piece of cake!
So I had some experience with Cisco IP phones ( Cisco 7912G ) and flashing it with SIP software, so I looked for one on the internet and found and bought one on a internet auction for 50 euros. To flash it, I had to install a TFTP server ( well, to dynamically configure it I had to install it ) so I hoped to install it on OpenWRT to.
It has been a while when I last posted something. This, ofcourse has had his reasons.
The last few months I have been really busy with with a project I have been working on. I have had to integrate six different applications (Siebel, HighDeal, some custom apps) on a Tivoli Access Manager with LDAP environment for single-sign-on purposes. Next to that, I have had also my usual tasks as Manager Services and I had to travel 3 hours a day from my home near The Hague to Amsterdam and viceversa. So little time was left to do anything else than my work. I hope things are going to change now I have decided to go to another company to do the things I initially studied for: Network infrastructure and which is more close to my home so I suspect I will not have to travel as much as I have done last year.
Offcourse, this means I have more time and therefore I hope to post more regular on my website…