Asterisk, OpenSolaris, and the Motorola VST200
Thursday, December 24 2009 @ 04:50 PM CST Views: 204
I finally got my old Motorola VST200 cordless phone working with Asterisk and successfully made a VoIP call with it! This phone is a classic, it looks like an ancient cellular phone and even flips open but it's a regular PSTN cordless phone. There were many moving pieces here, first I had to find a new battery for it which I did some weeks ago. I had a Digium TDM400P from years ago when I was last playing with Asterisk that I had to get working on OpenSolaris, as I no longer run Linux. Fortunately the guys at Solaris VoIP had a port of the Zaptel drivers. Unfortunately the newer Asterisks use DAHDi instead of Zaptel and nobody has ported that and I didn't want to play with it to see if there were more than name changes. So I just used Asterisk 1.2 which isn't a big deal for something that I'll probably never use. After much fiddling I finally got it working. What to do with it though?

I think I recognize that phone.