The Site With the Lamp

May 5, 2008

Asterisk plays an important part in my Quadruple play at home scenario. I had previously set it up so that zoiper softphone on my macbook could connect to it and talk to another macbook. I hadn't previously configured it with a hard phone or on linux.

Setting up the hardphone, the Nokia E51 was really easy thanks to Tony Huges's page on it. However I didn't setup a proxy has tony had done.

The next machine is my Old desktop, which still runs Fedora Core 6. Zoiper gives this error

zoiper: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Next I tried installing it there on my media server (FC 8)

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

but it did start up! I followed in the instructions in the tutorial and created the account. Then moved onto the zoipe (formerly idefisk) configuration. Thoug an account can be created, it cannot be registered. Asterisk dies off and restarts. WIth the following error.

 /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk: line 122: /dev/tty9: Permission denied

I reckoned that restarting asterisk ought to fix it; it didn't. Then I killed zoiper and restarted. Now the account is registered. Then I got my daughter to call me on my e51 worked like a charm.