Commercial Support Services to Install & Set Up ICTFAX

Asterisk 1.8 Installation

1. SpanDSP 0.0.6pre18
2. Asterisk 1.8.5
3. Enable and verify SpanDSP

Install SpanDSP

1. download spandsp software
   

   wget http://www.soft-switch.org/downloads/spandsp/spandsp-0.0.6pre18.tgz


2. extract / compile and install
   

   tar xzf spandsp-0.0.6pre18.tgz

   cd spandsp-0.0.6

   ./configure --prefix=/usr

   make

   make install


Install Asterisk

1. Prepare you system for asterisk
   

   useradd -c "Asterisk PBX" -d /var/lib/asterisk asterisk

   mkdir /var/run/asterisk

   mkdir /var/log/asterisk

   chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/run/asterisk

   chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/log/asterisk

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


2. download asterisk
   

   wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.8-current.tar.gz


3. extract / configure
   

   tar zxf asterisk-1.8-current.tar.gz

   cd asterisk-1.8*

   ./configure


4. Issue following command and ensure that under the Resource Modules heading, the section for
   spandsp looks like this:
   [*] res_fax_spandsp
   If you see this instead:
   XXX res_fax_spandsp
   It means that Asterisk was not able to find the spandsp library.
   Once you have verified that Asterisk can see spandsp, you are ready to
   recompile. Save
   

   make menuselect


5. now you can compile asterisk and install
   

   make

   make install

   make config


Enable and verify SpanDSP

1. You can verify that spandsp is working with Asterisk by issuing the
   following command from the Asterisk CLI:
   *CLI> module show like res_fax_spandsp.so

   At this point the SendFAX() and ReceiveFAX() dialplan applications
   will be available to you.

   Disabling Digium FFA (Should You Want to Test spandsp)

   The Digium FFA library and the spandsp library are mutually exclusive.
   If you want to try out spandsp, you will need to ensure that Digium FFA does not
   load. To disable FFA, simply edit your /etc/asterisk/modules.conf file as follows:
   and save the changes and restart Asterisk.
   

   noload => res_fax_digium.so