[Asterisk-Users] "Out the box" solutions?

[Lane]

Hi, again.

I've spent a week trying to get asterisk to work on FreeBSD unix, with some 
success.  Everything works until I plug the box into the TELCO line and then 
the line goes off-hook and stays that way.

So I bit the bullet and decided to install the application on a fresh linux 
install.  Not to start an OS war, here, but linux is ... difficult ... for an 
old unix hand to get his mind around.  It's a completely different landscape!  
And why is it that /etc/modules.conf in one release is /etc/modprobe.conf in 
another?  Is this beast not based on standards?

But I digress.  

I chose FC3 (Fedora Core) for the install, and now I'm sorry that I did.

At least with unix I was able to get a dial tone!  Not so much with this 
flavor of linux.  Each time I run "modprobe wcfxs" I get the following errors 
in /var/log/messages:

Jan  5 17:57:59 asterisk wait_for_sysfs[2782]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 
039)needs an update to handle the device '/class/zaptel/zap1' properly (no 
device symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be 
fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Jan  5 17:57:59 asterisk wait_for_sysfs[2784]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 
039)needs an update to handle the device '/class/zaptel/zap2' properly (no 
device symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be 
fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Jan  5 17:57:59 asterisk wait_for_sysfs[2786]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 
039)needs an update to handle the device '/class/zaptel/zap3' properly (no 
device symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be 
fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Jan  5 17:57:59 asterisk wait_for_sysfs[2788]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 
039)needs an update to handle the device '/class/zaptel/zap4' properly (no 
device symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be 
fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>

I'm not so interested in notifying these guys at lists.sourceforge.net, since 
I'm only interested in running asterisk.  Once I commit to actually using 
linux I might participate in their forum, but not yet :)

So ... the question:  What flavor of linux does asterisk actually run on "Out 
the box?"

I'm not scared to compile asterisk, but I'm not at all interested in 
recompiling a linux kernel.

Of course if that is the only way, then I guess I'll just bite another bullet. 
Hell!  I want this PBX to work so bad that I can almost taste it!

Please advise.

lane