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Here is a simple to-do list of what you'll need to do to set up Free PBX with multiple phone lines in a small-office style configuration. Free PBX is part of the Plug PBX system.

Adjust your settings

When you visit the IP address of your Plug PBX you are presented with a menu page that allows access to various parts of the PBX system. The link to 'FreePBX Administration' will send you to the main administration screen.

Now that we've successfully connected to our Dreamplug we need to take a step back and load some software on it before we connect again. The Dreamplug can boot from SD card and that is what we want to do here, and the easiest way to do this is to load a disk image onto our SD card before putting it into the Dreamplug.

The Dreamplug is the most recent incarnation of what are known as 'plug computers' - so called due to their small size, not much larger than a standard power supply unit.

A plug computer has several advantages for low-powered uses like web serving or file sharing: it's silent, small and draws very little power. And despite its size it can run a media server or PBX (phone system, more on this soon) without trouble.

More information on plug computers:

To insert a block directly within any node.tpl.php file, or indeed within any page.tpl.php file, you can use module_invoke.

To find the right variables to pass go to the block page within Drupal admin and hover over the 'configure' links for each block. The path tells you the module and block id that make up the first and third variables. The second one should always be 'block_view' if you want to view the block (and we do).