[asterisk-bugs] [AsteriskNOW 0008904]: Xorcom Astribank not supported in AsteriskNow

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=8904 
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Reported By:                tzafrir
Assigned To:                james
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Project:                    AsteriskNOW
Issue ID:                   8904
Category:                   Hardware Issues
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
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Date Submitted:             01-24-2007 06:13 CST
Last Modified:              08-02-2007 02:24 CDT
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Summary:                    Xorcom Astribank not supported in AsteriskNow
Description: 
The Xorcom Astribank is supported in Zaptel, but not in latest AstriskNow.
I intend to list here existing problems.

1. 1.4.0-beta3 does not include support for some later Astribank models
(USB IDs e4e4:115x ). This is included as of zaptel 1.2.12 / 1.4.0-beta4 .


So I request a new version of zaptel to be packaged.

2. xpp user-space tools not installed. Basically resolved in zaptel rev.
1943. However be sure to make libusb a build dependency for zaptel, and to
include /usr/share/zaptel and /etc/hotplug in the zaptel package.

3. The extra packages usbutils and fxload are needed. I'm currently
testing with 

usbutils=/conary.rpath.com at rpl:devel//rpl1/0.70-4-0.1
fxload=/contrib.rpath.org at rpl:devel//1/2002_04_11-1-1

4. No udev rules to install firmware on hotplug. To be committed to zaptel
soon by us. http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=8239

5. The init.d script of zaptel does not wait for the Astribank to finish
initializing. See the function  wait_for_xpp  in
http://svn.digium.com/svn/zaptel/team/tzafrir/zaphelper/zaptel-helper .
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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parent of           0008239 [branch] zaptel helper script
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 tzafrir - 08-02-07 02:24  
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As I said, in beta6 the Astribanks load firmware, but fail to start up
properly.

The missing piece is xpp_startup, as included in the init.d script of
zaptel 1.4.4:

# add this line before sourcing /etc/sysconfig/zaptel / 
/etc/default/zaptel:
# to allow overriding by the user:
XPP_SYNC=auto

# ...

# Initialize the Xorcom Astribank (xpp/) using perl utiliites:
# intended to replace all the the three functions below if user has 
# installed the zaptel-perl utilities.
xpp_startup() {
	# do nothing if there are no astribank devices:
	if ! grep -q connected /proc/xpp/xbuses 2>/dev/null; then return 0; fi

	echo "Waiting for Astribank devices to initialize:"
	cat /proc/xpp/XBUS-[0-9]*/waitfor_xpds 2>/dev/null || true
	
	# overriding locales for the above two, as perl can be noisy
	# when locales are missing.
	# No register all the devices if they didn't auto-register:
	LC_ALL=C zt_registration on

	# this one could actually be run after ztcfg:
	LC_ALL=C xpp_sync "$XPP_SYNC"
} 

Issue History 
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08-02-07 02:24  tzafrir        Note Added: 0068298                          
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