Author Archives: Giampaolo Tucci

Acer Revo M1-601: How to install Asterisk & Freepbx

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acer-m1-601To begin you need to install Debian 8.1.

Critical step in the installation process.
Non-free firmware
When the installation process ask for “Some of you hardware needs non-free firmware  – the missing firmware files are rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw”, you need to download from Debian Packaged web site package named firmware-realtek (see linkografia), uncompress it to an USB stick (using 7zip for example): after that you can insert USB key in your Acer and continue with installation process.

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Disk Partition
My choice: Guided – use entire – all file in one partition

Software Selection
My choice: SSH server and standard system utilities

Root SSH Access
You need to permit root user to get via SSH in order to facilitate the configuration steps.

> sed -i 's/PermitRootLogin without-password/PermitRootLogin yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> service sshd restart

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Asterisk/FreePbx 12 – How to solve error Permission denied (13) in /var/www/html/admin/config.php on line 68

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monkey-customer-serviceAfter upgrading to Asterisk/FreePbx 12 happenz the next error

PHP Warning:  session_start(): open(/var/lib/php/session/ failed.... Permission denied (13) in /var/www/html/admin/config.php on line 68

Praticaly when you login to freepbx web interface, and select any item in the menu, you will return to login page !

To solve

chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/php/session

Add T.38 Fax capabilities in Asterisk 13 and Freebx 12

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faxunoworkFax in Voip Env….. Joy and pain….

In this post I’ll show how to configure Asterisk 13/FreePbx 12 to use T.38 Fax capabilities to receive fax using SpanDSP (FFA not work in Asterisk 13….).

IMHO when possible is better configure Asterisk Fax system to use T.38 when possible instead alaw or other codec.

To transmit fax you can see my post.
Asterisk Mail2Fax using FFA in poor man style ! (linkografia)

To install and configure SpanDSP you can read my post
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