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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

[Nerd Vittles] Deploying Voice Over Wi-Fi with Asterisk

Nerd Vittles today presents a comprehensive HOW-TO on building and deploying a Voice Over Wi-Fi Network with Asterisk:

Getting Wi-Fi to play nice is another one of those grammatically incorrect, but thorny Linux problems that Asterisk inherits because of its roots. In the Windows and Mac worlds, we've become accustomed to plug-and-play for things like Wi-Fi USB sticks, but it ain't that easy with Linux unfortunately. Once you get the right device, this project will take you less than 30 minutes to complete. But we've invested almost a week getting everything to work ... so you won't have to. If the Linux community ever wants to see Linux used as a desktop PC, this piece of the puzzle needs some work!

Deploying Voice Over Wi-Fi with Asterisk