Topic '[How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router' in forum 'VOIP Tech Chat' - dslreports.com

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:40:59 EDT

neftv posted : Yea that price is up $5 from November when I got mine. It's funny how the weekend before cyber Monday it was $39 with $10 rebate. I'm glad I didn't think that the price was going down and I got mine just in time.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:25:47 EDT

BigTex2 posted : Newegg has the WL-520GU for $35 after rebate - but the coupon expires 12/31/09.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:44:12 EDT

Mango posted : FYI:

NCIX has the WL-520GU on special for Canadian $28.99 after rebate. There's only 100 available at this price.

»www.ncix.com/products/index.php?···oid=1217

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:35:48 EDT

venk25 posted :

said by Mango:

... but later on I'll post my extensions.conf, as well as my technique for propagating Message Waiting Indicator from your VoIP provider.

Hey Mango2, did you get a chance to post this ? I searched but couldn't find. Did I miss it ?

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:40:17 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by baysoor:

Has anybody used TrendNet TEW-632BRP with openwrt and asterisk? It has 32 MB RAM and on sale @ buy.com for $25.

At $25/each, this isn't really a bad deal. The only problem I can see is OpenWRT reports this device comes only with a 4MB Flash space and with no USB port to add an external storage.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:05:07 EDT

baysoor posted : Has anybody used TrendNet TEW-632BRP with openwrt and asterisk? It has 32 MB RAM and on sale @ buy.com for $25. I just ordered one. No, external USB but I suppose more RAM and faster CPU can be used with CIFS mount somewhere else on network.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:59:42 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by pagemen:

Can you post the output of "cat /proc/meminfo"?

Here is the output from cat /proc/meminfo:

MemTotal:          14192 kBMemFree:            3352 kBBuffers:             492 kBCached:             4304 kBSwapCached:            0 kBActive:             4960 kBInactive:           2808 kBActive(anon):       2068 kBInactive(anon):     1112 kBActive(file):       2892 kBInactive(file):     1696 kBSwapTotal:             0 kBSwapFree:              0 kBDirty:                 0 kBWriteback:             0 kBAnonPages:          2988 kBMapped:             3564 kBSlab:               2424 kBSReclaimable:        324 kBSUnreclaim:         2100 kBPageTables:          188 kBNFS_Unstable:          0 kBBounce:                0 kBWritebackTmp:          0 kBCommitLimit:        7096 kBCommitted_AS:       5292 kBVmallocTotal:    1048404 kBVmallocUsed:         336 kBVmallocChunk:    1047988 kB

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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:26:00 EDT

pagemen posted : Depending on how you define "free memory" but this value should be equal(or close) to Tomato's "Count cache memory as free memory" output.

The backslash shouldn't be a problem, just don't c/p directly, use "view plain" instead.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:18:55 EDT

BigTex2 posted : Thanks pageman for the script. I got it to work on my Asus running Tomato after a little massaging. I copied/pasted to Notepad, then joined together all the lines that you had separated with backslash, and then sourced it. I think the forum may have messed up your original. I've attached the file I created. If you do these steps, then it should work:


1. download the attached file and open with notepad
2. copy the contents to the paste buffer
3. In Linux on the router,
cat >freemem
[paste in from the paste buffer]
[type ^D to end the input to cat]
 
source ./freemem
---------------------------------------

 
Here's the result I got:
 

root@RT-0026184E2C93:/tmp/home/root# source ./freemem
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         14436      14092        344          0        884       5276
-/+ buffers/cache:       7932       6504
Swap:            0          0          0

 
Is this telling me that the free is actually 6504?
freemem.txt 461 bytes

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:09:01 EDT

pagemen posted : I tested it on OpenWrt and Tomato but they're both on 2.4 kernel and are both broadcom device, maybe /proc/meminfo has a different layout on other system. Can you post the output of "cat /proc/meminfo"?

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:35:48 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by pagemen:

Run the script with .(or source) to get a better result and that's why there is no #!/bin/sh on the first line.

I sourced your scripts (saved into a file called freemem), i.e. source freemem, and got the following error message:

root@Fonerisk:~# source /tmp/freemem -ash: eval: line 1: syntax error: "(" unexpectedroot@Fonerisk:~#

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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:59:17 EDT

pagemen posted : The busybox builtin free utility is actually missing Cached memory from display and has a different output layout than the standard Linux free utility. I wrote a script to do the math and emulate the output of the regular free command. Run the script with .(or source) to get a better result and that's why there is no #!/bin/sh on the first line.

eval $(cat /proc/meminfo | grep kB | sed 's/: */=/g;s/ kB//g') printf "%18s%11s%11s%11s%11s%11s\n" total used free shared buffers cachedprintf "Mem:%14d%11d%11d%11d%11d%11d\n" \        $MemTotal $((MemTotal-MemFree)) $MemFree $MemShared $Buffers $Cachedprintf "-/+ buffers/cache:%11d%11d\n"  \        $((MemTotal-MemFree-Buffers-Cached)) $((MemFree+Buffers+Cached))printf "Swap:%13d%11d%11d\n"  \        $SwapTotal $((SwapTotal-SwapFree)) $SwapFree

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:16:20 EDT

BigTex2 posted : Tomato is also set to a 3 second refresh rate. When I uncheck the ""Count cache memory as free memory" option, then the free memory that Tomato displays correlates well with the free utility's number, like yours.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:52:20 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by BigTex2:

Here is my memory usage, with nothing going on:


              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:        14436        14168          268            0         1040
 Swap:            0            0            0
Total:        14436        14168          268

But each time I run the free utility the number changes.

That is good that the numbers get changed every time when the free utility is executed. With about 268KB fresh RAM available, you may want to do some tests like Mango had done to find out if this has some effects, especially when your asterisk is serving a call. You may want to run two console windows with one console runs the top utility and observe it. Please let us know if you decide to try this.

I'm running Asterisk 1.4.22.1. I don't think that the "free" utility tells the full story.

AFAIK, what is printed out from free utility is the exact RAM/Swap information available during the snapshot by free utility. What free utility doesn't show is the amount of RAM the cache memory had consumed to hold some of the usable (running) codes, i.e. router + asterisk modules.

This Tomato FAQ leads me to think that the free memory will always appear low:

"Why is my router's displayed free memory very low?
Free memory is often used temporarily for cache and is automatically freed when needed. If you want the free memory display to count the cache size as free memory, go to Administration/Debugging. But unless you're getting error messages about not having enough memory, don't worry about it."

When I check the "Count cache memory as free memory" box as described above, Tomato shows my free memory to be:

Total / Free Memory 14.10 MB / 6,156.00 KB (42.64%)

If I may ask, how often does the GUI page refreshes itself on a Tomato firmware? My Linksys WRT54GS v3 running on a DD-WRT v24sp1 firmware refreshes its GUI page every 3 seconds. The Memory usage taken @snapshots shown on the GUI page and free utility matched as shown below:

DD-WRT GUI page:Total Available 28.6 MB / 32.0 MB Free            16.6 MB / 28.6 MB Used            12.0 MB / 28.6 MB Buffers         1.5 MB / 12.0 MB Cached          4.5 MB / 12.0 MB Active          4.5 MB / 12.0 MB Inactive        1.5 MB / 12.0 MB  FREE utility output:              total         used         free       shared      buffers  Mem:        29256        12332        16924            0         1580 Swap:            0            0            0Total:        29256        12332        16924

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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:53:16 EDT

BigTex2 posted : Here is my memory usage, with nothing going on:


              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:        14436        14168          268            0         1040
 Swap:            0            0            0
Total:        14436        14168          268

But each time I run the free utility the number changes.

I'm running Asterisk 1.4.22.1. I don't think that the "free" utility tells the full story. This Tomato FAQ leads me to think that the free memory will always appear low:

"Why is my router's displayed free memory very low?
Free memory is often used temporarily for cache and is automatically freed when needed. If you want the free memory display to count the cache size as free memory, go to Administration/Debugging. But unless you're getting error messages about not having enough memory, don't worry about it."

When I check the "Count cache memory as free memory" box as described above, Tomato shows my free memory to be:

Total / Free Memory 14.10 MB / 6,156.00 KB (42.64%)

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:49:17 EDT

Dan_voip posted : I had samba enabled to transfer some files and my free ram was:

              total         used         free       shared      buffers  Mem:        14436        14076          360            0          892 Swap:            0            0            0 Total:        14436        14076          360

After I stopped samba:

              total         used         free       shared      buffers  Mem:        14436        13392         1044            0          836 Swap:            0            0            0 Total:        14436        13392         1044

I'm using Asterisk 1.4

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:19:51 EDT

mazilo posted : On my FON2100 unit, if it has about 840KB available RAM after the asterisk-1.6.x has managed to service a call with AGI scripts, the asterisk-1.6.x should have no problem to process any future call. If the available RAM drops below 800KB, it is then the asterisk-1.6.x will run into problem processing any call. These are all based on my observations and experiments with my asterisk-1.6.x on my FON2100 unit.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:43:03 EDT

Mango posted : I've been trying but I can't pin it down. It seems to fluctuate so much that even when I load/unload modules I can't tell for sure what's making a difference.

For example, I unload a module, RAM usage goes down by 1%.

I load it again and RAM usages goes down by 2%.

:P
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:29:28 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by Mango:

[code]
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 14444 13480 964 0 812
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 14444 13480 964
[/code]

Can't explain that one.

Was that from the same Asus WL-520U system? If so, I am just curious how much the size of RAM gets changed if you try to place a call.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:49:42 EDT

Mango posted :

              total         used         free       shared      buffers  Mem:        14444        13480          964            0          812 Swap:            0            0            0Total:        14444        13480          964

Can't explain that one.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:44:57 EDT

mazilo posted : Mango, your asterisk had probably been recently served at least a single call when you took the snapshot with the free utility. The way I see this is perhaps your asterisk has already reserved enough RAM (when it processed previous calls) and won't have any problem to process a future single Inbound/outbound call. Can you try to place/receive two concurrent calls and observe how much RAM will get depleted?
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:24:46 EDT

Mango posted : I have a minuscule amount of free memory. I think I'll switch back to Asterisk 1.4 (I'm using 1.6 now) and possibly disable DNS and DHCP.

              total         used         free       shared      buffers  Mem:        14444        14072          372            0          496 Swap:            0            0            0Total:        14444        14072          372

What is the process named "init noinitrd"? Whatever it is, it's using 12% of RAM.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:12:48 EDT

mazilo posted : Can anyone who has an Asus WL-520U router + asterisk please post the output from the free memory utility to show how much RAM is used by the system with asterisk? On my FON2100 unit with no NAT/Firewall features, the output from the free memory utility i shown below:

              total         used         free       shared      buffers  Mem:        14192        10404         3788            0          196 Swap:            0            0            0Total:        14192        10404         3788

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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:04:03 EDT

Mango posted : Glad to hear it's working for you :) I thought it was a fun project.

You can get other sounds too, like this:
ipkg install asterisk14-core-sounds-en-ulaw
ipkg install asterisk14-extra-sounds-en-ulaw

It's available in other formats too if ulaw does not suit your purposes.

As far as how good the firewall is, it's simply NAT. When I do a port scan of my IP, the device does not respond at all. Can't get much better than that :)

I am not particularly confident with QoS (although my setup appears to work) so hopefully someone more knowledgeable will step in here.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:26:19 EDT

Dan_voip posted : Very nice device and very good topic; thanks Mango2!
I've bought an wl-520gu from newegg.ca and the installation worked flawless.
I've played with the settings, it took a while being the first time I had to setup an asterisk box but was ok in the final.

I ran in a problem[one of many :)] about call transfer to another extension; Sound files aren't included in this distribution and I found some free and good ones at »www.voicevector.com/
For call transfer at least 1 is needed:
/opt/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/pbx-transfer.ul

I wonder if it's too much for this device to enable voice mail on asterisk.
Other 2 thinks I have to check or if somebody have the answer already will be nice to share it:
- how good is the firewall
- QoS settings; I have some, I need to check how good they are

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:10:26 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by Mango:

...perhaps I was wrong. I ran dmesg like you said (thanks for the tip!) and saw some messages that said Asterisk had been killed because the device ran out of memory.

With a 16MB RAM, that's predictable. Since your Asus WL-520GU device has a USB port, you may want to create a swap space on a USB drive to use (even though it will be pretty slow).
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:10:52 EDT

Mango posted : ...perhaps I was wrong. I ran dmesg like you said (thanks for the tip!) and saw some messages that said Asterisk had been killed because the device ran out of memory. I turned on Wireless last night to test something (usually I have it disabled) which was right around the time the problem occurred.

I've set everything back to normal and it seems to be working again. Perhaps I'll downgrade to Asterisk 1.4 which used less memory, or disable cron, dns, and dhcp.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:55:12 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by Mango:

Both of them were Flash drives.

Ooops..., I thought you had a broken USB drive that its HD emitted sounds over and over again (as you mentioned in your post) when plugged into a USB port. :D

On your Asus WL-520GU, what does dmesg show when you plug the flash drive into its USB port? Also, you may want to check its partition using fdisk.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:19:48 EDT

Mango posted : Both of them were Flash drives.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:13:47 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by Mango:

Not really :( It just plays the Windows "Device found!" "Device removal!" sound over and over again until my wife tells me to make it stop :P

This sounded like a defunct interface card. To confirm this, you may want to pull out the HD and physically install it on your computer to see if that it will still work. If so, just get a new USB enclosure to house this HD.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:50:10 EDT

Mango posted : Not really :( It just plays the Windows "Device found!" "Device removal!" sound over and over again until my wife tells me to make it stop :P

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:14:44 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by Mango:

My router just munched another USB drive.

Will your USB drive still work when plugged into the USB port on your computer?

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:50:42 EDT

Mango posted : Dammit :(

My router just munched another USB drive. I thought the first time was because it was a cheap brand but two dead drives in such a short timespan is too much of a coincidence.

Do I have a bad router? Has anyone else had this problem?
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:00:22 EDT

Dan_voip posted : Asus has another good router WL-500W with 2 usb ports and wireless N but is not listed for Tomato firmware.
I wonder if somebody did try to install Tomato on it.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:15:54 EDT

Mango posted : Does it actually have an SD slot? Or did you mod it?

Double the memory would not go unnoticed. If Tomato firmware is available for your router I am sure the project would work well.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:11:05 EDT

suckithard posted : Well I was thinking that allowing SD card use would open up more routers. Especially the linksys ones.
I have the wrt54g-tm with double the memory and a 1gb sd card installed. I feel like it would run better than the 520gu.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:43:31 EDT

Mango posted : The WL-520GU does not have an SD slot. I did read an article about modifying a WRT54GL to use an SD card but that required soldering and I decided to go the USB route instead :-)

What may work is a USB-to-SD adapter. Perhaps it would appear just like a regular USB drive? If you try it, let us know.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:00:42 EDT

suckithard posted : Is it possible to install this to a SD card instead of a USB drive?
I think it involves changing some commands in the 3rd post, but I have no idea what.
Any guidance?

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:02:31 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by yanfw:

In this Skypiax Wiki, it is clearly stated that Skypiax works on Asterisk.

I believe Skypiax requires a Linux Skype client softphone to run on its host. Unless you can find a Skype client softphone for an Asus WL-520GU router, Skypiax is not going to work with your asterisk hosted on an Asus WL-520GU router. Even if you found a Skype client softphone for an Asus WL-520GU router, I can speculate that the router probably will have not enough CPU resources to process the Skype call.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:00:48 EDT

yanfw posted : I would like to install Asterisk on the Asus WL-520GU router. Mango2 has already documented this process earlier. I would also like to install Skypiax on the Asterisk in this router. As I am a total newbie to this, can anyone of you expert out there help by teaching me on how to do this ?
The link to the Skypiax Wiki is:
»wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Skypiax
In this Skypiax Wiki, it is clearly stated that Skypiax works on Asterisk.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:28:50 EDT

netdevil posted : I think the biggest problem will be the limited computing power and RAM of the router.

This is what the website you quoted states:

System Requirements
* Windows 2000/XP/2003
* Pentium 500MHz or above with at least 32MB RAM
* Broadband Internet Connection (for external VoIP lines).

I think you'll have to spend the $60 the Asterisk plugin costs - but as Mazilo pointed out it's unclear if it'll work on the Asterisk version on the router.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:13:54 EDT

yanfw posted : Here is a link which is for MHSpot.com .
»www.mhspot.com/sts/siptosis.html
It has built a free open source application that can bridge the Skpye API to a pbx or Asterisk. If any of you geeks out there who is able to modify the codes to install it in the USB storage, to make it bridge the Skpye API with Asterisk, it will be great.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:13:51 EDT

yanfw posted : The company NCH is selling the Skpye to Sip integration client for USD38.50 or GBP23.91 for the month of September. It is also offering a 14 days free trial. Here is the link:
»www.nch.com.au/skypetosip/index.html
I am hoping to get a work around that is free.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:06:19 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by yanfw:

Actually, my aim is to install Skpye on the router which will be switched on 24/7.

AFAIK, there is no way to use Skype on a router. Perhaps, the Chinese firm, mentioned here, that successfully reversed engineer Skype protocol may help you if they release the source. On a second thought, may be you are better off to spend a lot of money to invest on a Skype WiFi Phone that plugs into an RJ-45 port.

I understand that Skpye has just released a version for integration into Asterisk, but it is not free.

Since this isn't free, I suspect the binary version of Asterisk channel driver for Skype is only released for an ix86 platform which isn't compatible with most (Linux) embedded system under a MIPS platform.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:52:44 EDT

yanfw posted : Actually, my aim is to install Skpye on the router which will be switched on 24/7. If I can have Skpye and the other Voip service provider (e.g. Pennytel ) connected 24/7 ( but without the computer being needed to be switched on ), then I can save alot on long distant voice communication expenditure without incurring any significant cost on hardware. I understand that Skpye has just released a version for integration into Asterisk, but it is not free. If you would be kind enough to teach me how to make this dream come true, I would be very grateful. Could you do a detailed tutorial on how to go about setting this up or implementing a solution to achieve this aim, from scratch, for a router with USB ( like the Asus WL-520GU ) ? I am just a newbie to this.

I guess there are alot of people interested in this solution too.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:49:21 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by yanfw :

I am a newbie to this but I would like to ask you whether it is possible to install DD-WRT ( Voip Version ) on a router with USB port and then we install ' Skpye for Linux ' on the USB storage device and then bridge the DD-WRT voip with Skype.

Yes and you can do this if you know how to; however, the existing Linux Skype softphone for ix86 platform is not going to work on your router unless you have the Skype version softphone compiled for your router platform.

If we can, then we are able to use Skpye by attaching an ATA ( such as the PAP2 ) to one of the Lan port of the router.

I am not sure what exactly you try to achieve. However, one doesn't need Skype to use an ATA device connected directly to an RJ-45 port.
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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:44:35 EDT

anon posted : I am a newbie to this but I would like to ask you whether it is possible to install DD-WRT ( Voip Version ) on a router with USB port and then we install ' Skpye for Linux ' on the USB storage device and then bridge the DD-WRT voip with Skype. If we can, then we are able to use Skpye by attaching an ATA ( such as the PAP2 ) to one of the Lan port of the router.

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:52:24 EDT

Mango posted : Thanks BigTex2 - I'll include this in the revision of the how-to, when I get around to writing it!

Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:39:31 EDT

mazilo posted :

said by BigTex2:

A simpler, more general solution than the Tomato Init code I posted earlier is to simply add a command to the Tomato USB section to sleep for 15 seconds before starting asterisk (USB and NAS/USB Support/Run after mounting):

[ -d /mnt/USB ] && mount /mnt/USB /opt
sleep 15
/opt/sbin/asterisk

with the above change, I no longer need the init code.

An excellent idea to include a 15 seconds delay to get the USB steadily mounted. Thanks for sharing this.

I speculate that the reason my providers stopped registering after reboot, after I flashed DD-WRT to my Linksys WRT150N, was because the WRT150N was taking longer to boot than with the Linksys ROM. The internet was not available when Asterisk booted.

On my FON2100 device running on an OpenWRT firmware, the /etc/rc.d/S40network starts the network. By the time /etc/rc.d/S99asterisk is started, it has elapsed enough time for asterisk to launch and run. I am sure the network on your WRT150N device has been ready when your asterisk is launch, except the USB as you pointed out above. In your case, perhaps there is a way for you to edit your /etc/init.d/asterisk file to check for the USB device before it launches the asterisk. For instance, if the asterisk needs to access the /etc/asterisk/modules.conf file on the USB device, you can inject some delays as shown below (please check the syntax) in the start() section of your /etc/init.d/asterisk file before asterisk is called:

while ([ ! -f ${USB}/etc/asterisk/modules.conf ]) sleep X;

The above while loop will keep looping in an X seconds increment until it finds the module.conf file.

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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:05:51 EDT

BigTex2 posted : A simpler, more general solution than the Tomato Init code I posted earlier is to simply add a command to the Tomato USB section to sleep for 15 seconds before starting asterisk (USB and NAS/USB Support/Run after mounting):

[ -d /mnt/USB ] && mount /mnt/USB /opt
sleep 15
/opt/sbin/asterisk

with the above change, I no longer need the init code.

I speculate that the reason my providers stopped registering after reboot, after I flashed DD-WRT to my Linksys WRT150N, was because the WRT150N was taking longer to boot than with the Linksys ROM. The internet was not available when Asterisk booted.