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

William Lloyd wlloyd at slap.net
Sat Dec 3 22:02:26 CST 2005 

If you are having trouble with the ports why don;t you just try the  
binary package.  guaranteed to work.

pkg_add -r asterisk

-bill

On 3-Dec-05, at 10:41 PM, webmasterb wrote:

> Yea tried it with three different versions also, 1.0.6, 1.0.9, and  
> 1.0.10
>
> Don't go to sleep I have coffee right here! The good stuff too!  
> Chock Full 'o Nuts!
>
> It's the heavenly coffee!
>
> Tried re-dling the 1.0.6 version, and things seem to be working .....
>
> Until it tries to access mysql-4.0.24
>
> So I manually fetched that file also!
>
> Wham Bam! moves past that hurdle, and we're compiling away!
>
> Not finished yet but the current signs are quite encouraging.  Not  
> exactly sure why second attempt to install version 1.0.6 seems to  
> work, but the first try would not.
>
>
> One to cup #4
>
> bb
>
>
> On 12/3/05, Bradley W. Dutton <brad-asteriskbsd at duttonbros.com>  
> wrote: > I'm NOT using FreeBSD 6.0!
> > I originally tried the install on 6.0 b4 I came across that info.
> > I am now tryin to install on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE.
>
> Uh oops, I think I need some sleep.
>
> >
> > As to my issue with installing from the ports collection, it  
> seems as
> > though
> > I can not retrieve the proper file.  I guess I don't understand this
> > phrase correctly:
> >
> > Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> > port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
> >
> > Which I interpreted as dl the file manually and place it in
> > /usr/ports/distfiles.  Which I did.  Then moved back to the
> > /usr/ports/net/asterisk directory and proceded to make && make  
> install
> > with
> > the same results as earlier -> Error Code 1
> >
> > (ugh)
> >
> > What exactly does "port manually" mean to do???
>
> Installing manually means exactly what you did, download the file,  
> then
> put it into the /usr/ports/distfiles/ directory. Does the file you
> downloaded have the same name, i.e. is it named asterisk-1.0.6.tar.gz?
>
>
> >
> >
> > On 12/3/05, Bradley W. Dutton < brad-asteriskbsd at duttonbros.com>  
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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> >> >>
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