[Asterisk-bsd] Hello List :) New to Asterisk not new to FreeBSD

[Bradley W. Dutton]

In the "Warning" section on
ttp://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=FreeBSD+zaptel it states
FreeBSD 6 isn't supported yet. I'm eagerly waiting for 6.x support as
well, I'd like to get my VOIP conference line running again.

And yes the port makes it much easier to install Asterisk on FreeBSD:
cd /usr/ports/net/asterisk; make && make install

If your ports only have Asterisk version 1.0.6 you should read the FreeBSD
handbook on how to update your ports files.


> This page leads me to think they are supported for FreeBSD.
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=FreeBSD+zaptel
>
> But in doing further reading I found this sliver:
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+FreeBSD
>
> "Asterisk 1.0.9 <http://www.freshports.org/net/asterisk/> is now available
> via the ports or packages. The FreeBSD port automatically includes the
> Zaptel driver, and H323 support. If you build the port from source, you
> can
> use the WITHOUT_H323 and WITHOUT_ZAPTEL knobs to disable these things."
>
> Leading me to think maybe all I need to do is install asterisk from the
> ports collection?
>
> But when I initially tried that I could not fetch it correctly:
>
> patrick# make && make install
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> => asterisk-1.0.6.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from
> ftp://ftp.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/.
> fetch:
> ftp://ftp.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.0.6.tar.gz:
> No address record
> => Attempting to fetch from
> ftp://ftp.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/old-releases/.
> fetch:
> ftp://ftp.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/old-releases/asterisk-1.0.6.tar.gz:
> No address record
> => Attempting to fetch from
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> fetch:
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/asterisk-1.0.6.tar.gz:
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/net/asterisk.
>
> Ok let's try and use pkg_add:
>
> patrick# pkg_add -rv asterisk
> looking up ftp.freebsd.org
> connecting to ftp.freebsd.org:21
> setting passive mode
> opening data connection
> initiating transfer
> Error: FTP Unable to get
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/asterisk.tbz:
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> pkg_add: unable to fetch '
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/asterisk.tbz'
> by URL
> pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed
>
> Tried this to make sure pkg_add is not the problem:
>
> patrick#   pkg_add -rv apache
>
> Sure enough that worked ok and installed apache.
>
> I did notice that it seems to try and fetch an older version (1.0.6) than
> the one I tried to install from source (1.0.9).  Maybe that has something
> to
> do with my issue?  Possibly someone besides Alex will chime in.
>
> I'll put on a pot of coffee.
>
> bb
>
>
> On 12/3/05, Alex Ayala <alex at ayalanetworks.com> wrote:
>>
>> I believe there is not support for zaptel drivers on freebsd just yet.
>>  Maybe I'm wrong.
>>
>>
>> On 12/3/05 1:16 PM, "webmasterb" <webmasterb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello fellow asteriskers (can i say that?)
>>
>> My name is Brian.  I'm looking to setup asterisk on a 1.1GB machine with
>> 256MB of RAM Using an X100P wildcard (clone? i ordered the devices on
>> EBay).
>> When up and running I would like to use this machine with my Vonage VOIP
>> connection. To support my young educational non-profit org -> shameless
>> plug
>> www.parkday.org <http://www.parkday.org/> <http://www.parkday.org/> .
>>
>> I have been reading about asterisk for about one month now. I have
>> purchased the O'reilly Book "Asterisk: The Future of Telephony" and have
>> read about half of it.
>>
>> First attempt at running asterisk on FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE resulted in a
>> core dump anytime I tried to run asterisk from the cmd line. Poking
>> around I
>> read somewhere?? that asterisk is not quite ready for 6.0 RELEASE just
>> yet.  Upon reading this I went and re-installed the OS with version
>> 5.4RELEASE.
>>
>> First thing I did after re-installing my OS is re-copiled my kernel to
>> remove all extraneous devices, everything is ok so far.
>>
>> Now I downloaded all the asterisk (main sounds addons) source code from
>> digium ftp site placed them in /usr/src.
>>
>> Then I went into the /usr/ports and installed bison gmake and libpri.
>>
>> >From there went to the zaptel ports directory to install the zaptel
>> drivers from there... Here's where things start to get sticky?
>>
>> patrick#   make clean && make && make install
>>
>> install seemed to be completed ok
>>
>>  patrick#  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/zaptel.sh start
>> kldload: can't load %%PREFIX%%/lib/zaptel/zaptel
>> .ko: No such file or directory
>>
>> Here's where I'm lost?  On my first attempt using 6.0-RELEASE zaptel
>> started up fine at boot time and even recognized both X100P cards?
>>
>> So I wondered . . . Do I need to install asterisk before I tried to run
>> the zaptel drivers?  So I went into /usr/src/asterisk-1.0.10 and ran:
>>
>> patrick#  gmake clean && gmake && gmake install
>>
>> All seemed to go well there, So I ran:
>>
>>  patrick#  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/zaptel.sh start
>>
>> Which resulted in the same error as before.  So now I'm really stumped!
>>
>>
>> Any assistance with my conundrum would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanx
>>
>> bb
>>
>>
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