[Asterisk-Users] Installing CAPI

[Craig Guy]

I've got a couple of Fritz! chan_capi installs under my belt here in
Australia.  I've elected to use the mISDN capi drivers over the AVM ones and
it works quite well except for broken DID support, and of course all the
limitations of using non Zaptel drivers.

Craig

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leandro Morgado" <leandro.morgado at bragaredes.homelinux.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Installing CAPI


> Hi,
>
> I've used the Fritz AVM PCI card with Junghanns.net  chan_capi and it's
> working great. It's never crashed or given problems, although I have a
> low call volume (at most 50 calls a day). The setup was not straight
> forward (fritz drivers compilation, version matching, etc) but it wasn't
> very dificult with help from the very same links you gave (wiki and
> junghanns docs).
>
> Maybe it's a problem with your ISDN card? I've tried 2 other cards and
> just couldn't get them to work. The Fritz works great though!
>
> Leandro
>
> Damian Funnell wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > We recently did our first * install with CAPI and we found the levels
> > of support (and general knowledge) within the community seriously
> > wanting.  In fact, we found things so bad that I would caution against
> > using CAPI unless you are feeling particularly game and confident in
> > your abilities to fix problems, as you are likely to find it very
> > difficult to get help if you need it.
> >
> > Out of the half dozen or so help requests that I or my colleagues
> > posted to this forum or to the #asterisk IRC channel, for example, we
> > didn't receive a single helpful response.  Not one.  Not that there
> > wasn't anyone who was willing to help, but there just didn't seem to
> > be anyone around who was using CAPI in anger.
> >
> > We originally chose CAPI over ISDN4Linux because of the commercial
> > support that was supposedly available through junghanns.net (CAPI also
> > provides a better feature set than ISDN4Linux, but we don't use any of
> > the additional features, so this wasn't a consideration for us), but
> > when we called upon junghanns.net for support it took them so long to
> > respond that we needn't have bothered (we had stumbled across a fix
> > ourselves by the time we got a response from them).
> >
> > If this hasn't scared you off then check out the documentation at
> > http://www.junghanns.net/asterisk/ and the sample files/readme that
> > come with the CAPI source.  There is also a fairly good configuration
> > guide at
> > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+How+to+connect+with+CAPI and
> > the CAPI readme is reproduced at
> > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+CAPI+Readme.
> >
> > Drop me a mail at damian dot funnell at fff dot co dot nz if you would
> > like me to send you a copy of our conf files so you can see how we're
> > using it.
> >
> > Right now we are trying to diagnose a problem where the voice channels
> > over CAPI fall apart a few times per day, resulting in all external
> > calls having to be terminated.  We don't know if this problem is CAPI
> > related, but predictably we haven't been able to find anyone in the
> > community who can help us figure it out.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Damian.
> >
> > laine.marko at porilainen.com wrote:
> >
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>I can't find any instructions of installing capi and chan_capi. Do you
know any
> >>site with instructions or can you give me step by step help with this.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Thank you for your answers
> >>
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