[Asterisk-Users] Is my card bad?

[Joe Antkowiak]

Hi,

I have a 1 port T1 card in an asus p4p800-vm board with a 2.0g Celeron, and
512m of 266mhz ram (256 on each channel).  This board has video, Ethernet,
and serial ata all on-board, I got it because of that, there wouldn't be
anything else on the pci bus that would mess with the zaptel card(s).

So, here's my problem.  I'm running redhat 9 with kernel 2.4.20-20.9.  I can
load the zaptel module fine.  I can also load the wct1xxp module fine.  But,
after I load the wct1xxp module, I notice that the entire box just freezes
for about 3 seconds every 30 seconds.  Zttool sees the card fine, doesn't
see any problems (other than the circuit down), and there are no irq misses.
Within 3 seconds of starting *, the entire box just hangs, and never
recovers.

The only other thing on the same pci bus as the t1 card is the onboard
Ethernet controller, and nothing is sharing its irq (5).  I also tried
messing with the pci latency timer.  The default was 64, I tried 32, 64, 96,
and 128.  I did notice though, as the numbers got smaller, the time the
system was frozen and the interval of the freezing became shorter (ie 64 was
twice as long as 32).

Just to try it, I removed the span config for this card from zaptel.conf,
and wa-la, no more freezing, but then my card wasn't configured at all.  *
would then start, but its pointless then.

This is a new box, and I've never been able to get this to work.   Any
ideas?

-Joe