Chan_dongle runs only in asterisk 1.6.2 and asterisk 1.8. Asterisk 1.4 is not supported.

There is a lot of very good howto's explaining Asterisk installation. Take a look at this brief summary (Debian), but you can take a look at 1, 2 or 3 (in spanish).

Note that we don't need Dahdi channel to run chan_dongle, so it can be avoided.

Be careful with iptables and selinux. If needed, edit /etc/selinux/config and write:

SELINUX=disabled
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

Then, disable iptables

iptables -F
iptables-save > /etc/iptables.up.rules

or configure it to allow SIP (port 5060) and RTP (port 10000-20000) if you plan to use these protocols.

Now upgrade your system

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

And install packages needed for compilation of asterisk

apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` gcc g++ make libnewt-dev libncurses5-dev openssl libssl-dev zlib1g-dev

Download source files and untar. Asterisk 1.6 is explained, but 1.8 looks similar.

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.6.2.13.tar.gz
tar zxvf asterisk-1.6.2.13.tar.gz

If you will use FreePBX, then install asterisk-addons

wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-addons-1.6.2.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf asterisk-addons-1.6.2.2.tar.gz

Now compile

cd asterisk-1.6.2.13
make clean && ./configure --disable-xmldocs && make && make install && make config

If needed

make samples

If you installed asterisk as described here, go ahead. Anyway, check some dependencies like automake and autoconf. Also must have asterisk sources and development tools like make, gcc and so on.

svn checkout https://github.com/bg111/asterisk-chan-dongle/trunk/ dongle-read-only
cd dongle-read-only
aclocal && autoconf && automake -a

wget https://github.com/bg111/asterisk-chan-dongle/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd asterisk-chan-dongle-master
aclocal && autoconf && automake -a

./configure

configure options:

• --enable-debug
• --disable-debug
• --enable-manager
• --disable-manager
• --enable-apps
• --disable-apps

• --with-asterisk=/path_to_source/asterisk.h

usefull environment variables

• DESTDIR
• CFLAGS
• LDFLAGS

Examples

• DESTDIR=“/usr/lib/asterisk/modules” ./configure
• ./configure –with-asterisk=/usr/src/asterisk-1.6.2.13/include
• CFLAGS=“-I /usr/src/asterisk-1.6.2.13/include” ./configure
• ./configure --enable-debug
• ./configure --disable-apps --disable-manager
• CFLAGS=“-O0 -g” ./configure
• CFLAGS=“-Os” ./configure

default is

• ./configure --disable-debug --enable-apps --enable-manager
• DESTDIR searching in /usr/lib/asterisk/modules /usr/local/lib/asterisk/modules /opt/local/lib/asterisk/modules

and

• asterisk.h searching in ../include /usr/include /usr/local/include /opt/local/include

For compile and build source to module

make

For install property configured and build module:

sudo make install

Once installed, copy example file dongle-read-only/etc/dongle.conf to /path_to_asterisk_config/ (i.e. /etc/asterisk/). Configure it as desired and start asterisk. To load, stop or restart chan_dongle:

CLI>module load chan_dongle.so
CLI>module unload chan_dongle.so
CLI>module reload chan_dongle.so