[Asterisk-Users] drivers, kernel 2.6 and distribution

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Steve Totaro wrote:

> Fedora 2 core put up a little fight but not much.

I installed Gentoo on my Dual Opteron box w/ a completely native x86_64 
2.6.7 kernel, and was able to get my X101P working w/ Zaptel by simply 
doing "make linux26". Works great in 64 bit mode.
 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Florin Andrei" <florin at andrei.myip.org>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 1:54 PM
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] drivers, kernel 2.6 and distribution
> 
> 
> > I'm planning to do some tests with a Wildcard TDM400P and Asterisk as a
> > small PBX, bridging POTS and VoIP. My test system is currently running
> > Fedora 2, based on the 2.6 kernel.
> > I intend to use Asterisk 1.0 RC1 in the tests.
> > 
> > While gathering information regarding how to compile the required
> > software, i came across several issues being reported, related to the
> > 2.6 kernel series.
> > 
> > I'd like to take the road that requires the minimum effort. If it's
> > possible at all to use Asterisk and the TDM400P on a 2.6 machine, and if
> > that's actually not too difficult, i'll probably go this way.
> > But if there are many issues with this approach, i'm thinking to simply
> > revert back to the 2.4 kernel; downgrading to Fedora 1 might not be the
> > best move, since support for Fedora distros is (will be) quite
> > short-lived, but perhaps migrate that system to Gentoo on kernel 2.4.
> > 
> > I have zero experience so far with Asterisk and the related software, so
> > that's why i'm asking you guys - which way is easier overall:
> > 
> > 1. Stay with Fedora 2 and kernel 2.6 and fight off the driver-related
> > obstacles
> > 
> > 2. Back up the machine, install Gentoo and kernel 2.4, restore data and
> > functionality then compile Asterisk and the drivers
> > 
> > -- 
> > Florin Andrei
> > 
> > http://florin.myip.org/
> > 
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