[Asterisk-Users] Am I stupid or is my card DOA.?

[niles at atheos.net]

>
> ** Niles Wrote
>
> | I had this exact same problem with my new TDM400P I just received 
> last
> | week.
> | It's very inconvenient not to be able to restart my phone server
> | remotely, due to
> | the TDM400P not restarting.
> | I was able to successfully reboot my system earlier without
> | cold-booting the server
> | by unloading the zaptel modules before restarting the system.
> | You will will to unload the modules in the opposite order that you
> | loaded them, and may
> | want to place them low in your /etc/rc.d/rc.K file (in slackware) for
> | automation.
> | (example for rc.K)
> |
> | # unload zaptel modules on shutdown.
> | # asterisk should not be running when this occurs
> |
> | /sbin/modprobe -r wcfxs
> | /sbin/modprobe -r xct1xxp
> | /sbin/modprobe -r zaptel
> |
> | I haven't tested this extensively, but it has worked the one time I
> | tested it.
> |
> | Niles
> |
>
>
> Niles
>
> I tried your suggestion, but still get the hang of the TDM card (4 fxo 
> modules)
>
> Regards
> Greg
>
>
>
Greg,

did you receive any errors when attempting to unload the modules, and
was asterisk still running at that time?
Be sure asterisk is not running, and that you remove the modules in 
reverse.
I only tried it once, so it could have been a red herring.

Niles