[Asterisk-Users] X100P red alert

[Karl Dyson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Kristian Kielhofner
> Sent: 19 October 2004 22:12
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] X100P red alert
> 
> Alex van Es wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I just got my X100P card installed and asterisk keeps on 
> complaining 
> > that it cannot create a zap channel. I read somewhere on 
> the internet 
> > that the zap card will not work when a phoneline is not plugged in, 
> > cause is draws power from the phoneline. Is this correct? Of course 
> > eventually I will connect it to a phoneline, but I would 
> just like to 
> > know this for sure..
> > 
> > Alex
> > 
> 
> Alex,
> 
> 	It may not be able to create a zap channel because the 
> driver isn't loaded.  Make sure that you have the kernel 
> modules installed and everything working, etc.  Too much to 
> go over right now.  Look in the wiki, etc.  But you will need 
> to have it connected to the phoneline to make calls over the 
> phone line, of course.
> 
> 	The X100p does not get power over the phone line.  The 
> PCI bus takes care of that.
> 

Whilst the card does get power from the line, it does detect if the line
is present. If you have the zaptel module loaded, and the ztcfg runs ok,
you should have:

bash $ cat /proc/zaptel/1 
Span 1: WCFXO/0 "Wildcard X101P Board 1" 

           1 WCFXO/0/0 FXSKS (In use) 

This will say RED ALARM if the card is unable to use the line. Check the
cord you have plugged in is the correct cord, and has the correct pins
connected. I had this originally, and on swapping the cord all worked
fine :)

Also:

bash $ ls -al /dev/zap/*
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root        7 Jan  1  1970 /dev/zap/1 -> span1/1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 196, 254 Jan  1  1970 /dev/zap/channel
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 196,   0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/zap/ctl
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 196, 255 Jan  1  1970 /dev/zap/pseudo
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 196, 253 Jan  1  1970 /dev/zap/timer

/dev/zap/span1:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root      0 Jan  1  1970 .
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root      0 Jan  1  1970 ..
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 196, 1 Jan  1  1970 1
bash $ 

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Karl

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