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I recently decided to give chan_mobile (formerly chan_cellphone) a try with Asterisk. There are patches for Asterisk 1.4.4 at http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=8919. However, I have Asterisk 1.4.11 running on my system. David Bowerman has graciously added chan_mobile to the Asterisk-Addons SVN head work that is ongoing. The problem here was that Asterisk-Addons SVN head is working with Asterisk SVN head and there are some API changes going on in Asterisk that refuses to allow chan_mobile to compile for Asterisk 1.4.11. So being the type to not give up I decided to try to back port chan_mobile to Asterisk 1.4.11.

My new favorite IP phone is the Polycom 650, which supports wideband audio (G.722 codec). Asterisk has pass through support in the 1.4 branches, however they can't transcode between other codecs, which makes checking voicemail. hearing ringing, and other things not audible. I noticed they have full codec support in the head repository, so I back ported the code and created the attached patch for those that want G.722 support in Asterisk 1.4.11 (it was originally written for Asterisk 1.4.7.1, but works with 1.4.11 so far). To load this patch you need to do the following from inside of the Asterisk source code directory:

I was finally able to modify the Asterisk™ source code to get it to compile as a package under OpenWRT. I will put my package file that contains the patch here for others to play with if they'd like. I make no guarantee it will work. I have not (as of right now) tested this. To use this, just unpack the file in your packages directory in either your openwrt-dev directory or the SDK. It will download the asterisk-1.2.13.tgz file from Digium and then patch it and compile it when you do a make world. You will need some support libraries depending on the options you choose

This is all the work of Brian Capouch whom I met at Astricon 2006. He's a professor at Saint Joe's University in Indiana and runs a wireless ISP business. He uses the WGT634u as his wireless clients and runs Asterisk™ on them for phone service. Basically, if you have a clean Netgear WGT634u router, then you can use the web interface to upload the openwgt-0.06a.img file. After this completes, then your router will be running OpenWGT. In order for it to start up asterisk you will need a USB thumb drive with the first partition formated as an ext3 partition.