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| [Equipment] Installing Asterisk on a Playstation 2
I have heard rumors that people have been able to load Asterisk on a PS2. Has anyone been able to do this? If so, how did you get around the lack of an ethernet port on the PS2 for connectivity purposes? I ask about using a PS2 because its 1/3 the size of the old Dell desktop I am currently using, and I suspect it probably uses less power. Any thoughts? |
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mazilo
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| said by wifi4milez  :If so, how did you get around the lack of an ethernet port on the PS2 for connectivity purposes? IIRC, there are several releases of a PS/2. Perhaps, the one you mentioned is the original release that doesn't have a 10Mbps ethernet port, but can be added through a cartridge, IIRC. OTOH, I believe the last release, thin PS/2, should have a 10Mbps ethernet port built-in. IIRC, this device comes with a built-in 32MB RAM with its CPU runs @400MHz and can deliver a whopping 6GFlops! It probably is an overkill machine for asterisk.
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| said by mazilo :said by wifi4milez :If so, how did you get around the lack of an ethernet port on the PS2 for connectivity purposes? IIRC, there are several releases of a PS/2. Perhaps, the one you mentioned is the original release that doesn't have a 10Mbps ethernet port, but can be added through a cartridge, IIRC. OTOH, I believe the last release, thin PS/2, should have a 10Mbps ethernet port built-in. IIRC, this device comes with a built-in 32MB RAM with its CPU runs @400MHz and can deliver a whopping 6GFlops! It probably is an overkill machine for asterisk. Thats a good point. I have one of the earliest models they made (slower CPU, I assume less RAM, and no Ethernet port). Just for kicks I tried inserting the disk I used to format my desktop but the PS2 didnt boot from it. I think I need "trick" the PS2 into booting from CD, so I am searching around for the way to do that. Asterisk on a PS2 does sound like an interesting idea, so if anyone has done it fell free to chime in!
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| said by wifi4milez :Just for kicks I tried inserting the disk I used to format my desktop but the PS2 didnt boot from it. I am not sure if I understood you correctly that you tried to run a Windows/DOS disk on a PS/2? If so, that's not going to work. A PS/2 has a different hardware architecture and uses different type of CPU than a Windows/DOS desktop computer. I am sure you will find a lot of information from a Google search on how to turn a PS/2 into a Linux computer system to run asterisk.
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You may want to investigate a low cost router as an alternative. Our PS/2 (like our PS3's and Xbox 360's) tend to use a lot of power. Your cost of operation may exceed any savings even from a free PS2.
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said by mazilo :said by wifi4milez :Just for kicks I tried inserting the disk I used to format my desktop but the PS2 didnt boot from it. I am not sure if I understood you correctly that you tried to run a Windows/DOS disk on a PS/2? If so, that's not going to work. A PS/2 has a different hardware architecture and uses different type of CPU than a Windows/DOS desktop computer. I am sure you will find a lot of information from a Google search on how to turn a PS/2 into a Linux computer system to run asterisk. I figured it wouldnt work but I figured I might as well try it. I was going through my closet looking for something else and I remembered that (I thought I heard) the PS2 could be made to run linux.
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I would suspect that if someone were successful in getting asterisk up and going on a PS2, they were probably using the linux kit that Sony sold for these back in 2002 (long since sold out):
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_···tation_2
There have been instances of people getting asterisk compiled on a PS3, but there are a lot more economical solutions out there, as has been pointed out. |
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said by pandora :You may want to investigate a low cost router as an alternative. Our PS/2 (like our PS3's and Xbox 360's) tend to use a lot of power. Your cost of operation may exceed any savings even from a free PS2. Totally a valid point. I thought I had a home run with my Buffalo NAS (I installed a customized build of Debian with Asterisk), but unfortunately I cant support the GUI. My father in law is a CLI wizard, but I like to constantly tinker so a GUI is easier for me to work with when he isnt around.
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