[Asterisk-bsd] Kim Culhan's FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE asterisk install notes

[Thomas Sandford]

"Dean Billing" <dean at laptop4hire.com> wrote:
> Kim & the list -
>
> There must be a convergence in the space time continuum (sp?).
>
> I have been commissioned by a client to build a FreeBSD base asterisk
> server.
>
> I have built dozens of servers for this client, but the obsolesence of a
> motherboard I had been using required using a brand new motherboard
> whose onboard RAID controller would only be recognized by FreeBSD 6.0.
> So I loaded FreeBSD, upgraded it to STABLE, loaded zaptel and asterisk
> from PORTS and installed a DigitNetworks X100P FXO and tried to get
> zaptel to recognize it.  The system locks up when it tries to perform
> the /sbin/kldload of wcfxo.ko in the zaptel.sh startup script.
>
> Finding this install procedure today is uncanny ... I am trying it as we
> speak.
>
> My question is, since I have installed zaptel and asterisk from PORTS,
> should I deinstall them before actually building zaptel and asterisk
> from the svn source?

Yes - otherwise you will end up with a fearfull mess of conflicting 
versions.

I would however strongly recommend that if this server is intended for 
production use you client goes for a Linux based server. Although I am a 
card carrying FreeBSD bigot myself I'm afraid that I don't really believe 
that Asterisk on FreeBSD is mature enough for production use - and given 
that an Asterisk server should really be a standalone device (ie not running 
lots of other applications/services) it's not so great a problem for it to 
be a lone Linux box.

Now - let's get back to this thread and _get_ the FreeBSD Asterisk port 
ready for primetime... :-)

-- 
Thomas Sandford