Comments on: The Asterisk Mother Lode: Introducing the Orgasmatron II for the $199 Everex gPC2

By: DrMurdoch

DrMurdoch — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:43:04 +0000

I would make note for others that the sed command that changes the aastra.cfg to let your phones know your server’s ip …. can only be run once. Subsequent issues of this command will not update the aastra.cfg file to the new server IP.

FYI. I was wondering why my phones were not registering and nano’ing the aastra.cfg told the story (I was still using the old server IP)!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:27:31 +0000

So I’ve already signed up for a vitelity account and have it configured in my system. Then I come back here and see the bit about dialing any number before setting up a trunk to configure your service. How do i configure a trunk for ‘your’ service since I already have trunks installed?

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:32:08 +0000

Why do you favor vitality over les for outbound?

les.net
0 setup
0/month
$0.015/min

vitelity
0 setup?
$0.0145/min

for us lowly dynamic 15/2 cable users will the fiwld accept FQDN? (dynamic DNS)

Yahoo apparently has phone out and phone in, too. Their phone out is half the cost.

voice.yahoo.com
now lives on jajah?

Though it seems some trickiness is required to use with any SIP capable device..

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:14:55 +0000

Can I port my number to vitelity to use as DID?

*while I experiment with providers instead of assigning it to the local bell with call forwarding

[WM: Sure. Just contact Vitelity and they can walk you through the process.]

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:56:13 +0000

how does that everex compare to the newer $199 gPC3

http://www.everex.com/support/gpc3/everex_gpc3_user_manual.pdf

[WM: The gPC3 is an Everex machine. Reportedly, they got rid of the green processor. But we haven’t tried one since the Dell SC440 and T100 have been better performers for a comparable price.]

By: cj6814

cj6814 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:54:10 +0000

DON’T FOLLOW THE LINK TO THE $25 1GB of memory and blindly purchase as I did. The link is for memory specific to the Everex gPC not the Everex gPC2 that you should be using for this distro. The memory that this page is linked to doesn’t play nice with the memory in the gPC2. This is what was causing my constant lockups……and they say I don’t have attention to detail…hahaha.

[WM: So long as you use a matched pair of these, there should be no problems. The crashes begin when you pair one of the new RAM chips with the existing chip in the gPC2’s. Sorry.]

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:14:22 +0000

I set this up and added a second drive and enabled RAID; all easy all good. But that caused my USB thumb drive to be on /dev/sdc1 not /dev/sdb1 and that broke the automatic backup scripts that are looking for /dev/sdb1. I can easilly change /root/usbformat and /root/usbcheck, but the weekly cron job still seems to fail. Is there some easy way to either reconfigure the USB drive back to /dev/sdb1 or to change the cron weekly job to use /dev/sdc1 ?

Thanks for the advice!

[WM: Morris, edit /etc/asterisk/disk-backup.conf. Search for sdb1 and change it to sdc1. Save your changes, and you’re all set.]

By: cj6814

cj6814 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:48:37 +0000

For the Aastra phone setup I’d like to add two points to help the other newbs like me.

1) you need to update the password inside the MacAddressOfYourPhone.cfg file to match the password change you did when you were told that "your phone bill depends" on a strong password.

2) make sure you use uppercase letters when changing the .cfg file to the mac address of your phone.

Viva PBX in a flash!!!

By: fred

fred — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:53:14 +0000

very strange i download the Dell’s SC440 iso mondo backup,, change the passwd-maint for hello but can’t enter the web gui with http://192.168.xxx.xxx/ with hello
always said incorrect password but when i bypass with this url http://192.168.xxx.xxx/menu.php?id=admin ,,, i put my maint password hello and go no trouble to enter freepbx GUI???? got a clue ???try iexplore 6 or firefox 2 same bug,,, will try over tommorow with a fresh mondo restore but without changing any password … keep the good work.. I move from trixbox to PIAF because you made a clean and effective distro and very good wiki.. thanks again 🙂

[WM: The default UI password is still password. It needs to be changed independently from within the UI Admin interface. Thanks for your note.]

By: jason

jason — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:32:32 +0000

I paid the $5 dollars and downloaded a 610MB file. How could I create 2 CD’S with this one file?

2nd question is I have the old walmart special, will it work?

[WM: Unzip the file and you’ll have 2 ISOs for 2 CDs. Should work fine with any Everex gPC.]

By: Tom Schmitt

Tom Schmitt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:31:02 +0000

Does this new install include the updated XML for Aastra?
Is there a way to easily check the release of the Aastra XML code?
Thanks

[WM: Sorry. We didn’t have sufficient time to test the new release before this went out the door. Stay tuned.]

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:13:54 +0000

Hi, how will this work with a couple of sangoma fxo cards? Would I install them after everything is up and running or before copying the image back into the machine from the CDs? I want this system really bad, but I need a few FXO ports…will it work?

[WM: Install the cards AFTER you get things going.]

By: Cyrus

Cyrus — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:37:15 +0000

I can't find any gPC2 computers available anywhere to purchase. Is there any way to have this built on a machine that you can readily purchase? [WM: Take a look at this message thread for some ideas. We also have a new build coming for the Acer Aspire One which should be available... soon.]

By: Jackal

Jackal — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:51:12 +0000

I have a current Trixbox system with Rhino 4FXO card.
Q: Can I buy a gPC2, do a Orgasmatron install and add in the Rhino card from the older system? Would mondo rescue and everything else still work fine? Thanks in advance.

By: Tom Schmitt

Tom Schmitt — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:21:42 +0000

This is the same file name as last time. piaf4gpc2.zip.
The download in my existing list shows the file to be 590.46 MB while the link shows the size for the same file name is 707.38 MB. Is this another $5 download, just want to make sure that it is not the same one updated.

[WM: New file name is piaf4gPC2.zip. And 707.38MB is the correct size. It’s a completely new build with different CentOS, different FreePBX, different Asterisk, etc.]

By: Raphael

Raphael — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:32:33 +0000

Congrats for the work !
Wouldn’t be more reliable to have this kind of distro on a netbook such as Acer Apire one (just 100$ more) : portable, battery in case of electricity cut, ect ?

[WM: Stay tuned!]

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:28:01 +0000

Hello, I have couple of servers that I used before with other applications. Thier hardware are a lot better than the PC mentioned here. Is there any way to use them instead going out and buy that PC? Can I install that OS and then take it from there? [WM: You can certainly install PBX in a Flash from the 32-bit ISO. But the Orgasmatron II build requires a specific motherboard and hard drive.]

By: Keith Veleba

Keith Veleba — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:51:53 +0000

Can you really run 50 simultaneous users on a $200 PC? Is that 50 simultaneous calls? [WM: users <> calls.]

By: 7proxies

7proxies — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:13:02 +0000

‘Mother Lode’
In the United States, Mother Lode is most famously the name given to the long alignment of hard rock gold deposits stretching northwest to southeast in the Sierra Nevada of California.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_lode

Understood and Buenas Vetas Madre!

By: 7proxies

7proxies — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:40:09 +0000

Lode?

[WM: Try Google… define: lode]