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

[Dr. Rich Murphey]

Thomas Sandford wrote:
> "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... :-)
>

If the asterisk and zaptel version are not in sync, the asterisk compile 
will fail with a warning about zaptel being too old.


Rich