[Asterisk-Users] Will Digium Wildard work with PCI-X or PCI Express

[Matt Roth]

Don't bank on it.  We were going to use a Wildcard as a timing source on 
our Dell PowerEdge 6850 and the BIOS didn't see it.  Depending on the 
PCI-X slot I installed it in, sometimes the box wouldn't even boot.  For 
perspective the 6850 has 4 PCI-e slots, and 3 PCI-X slots (one 64-bit 
133 MHz, two 32-bit 100 MHz).

I believe the timing is only needed for music on hold, IAX trunking, and 
MeetMe conferencing.  We're not doing trunking or conferencing (for now) 
so we're going with ztdummy.  If the timing isn't perfect only our music 
on hold will suffer, which is no big deal.  If we run into other 
problems, we might try popping our quad-span card in there just to see 
if it works.

Keep in mind that Digium no longer produces Wildcards.  I'm not sure why 
they don't work with our 6850 and the techs at Dell didn't know either.  
Maybe they are not 100% PCI compliant.

Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer

Kevin Bockman wrote:

> Chuck Bunn wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if the Digium Wildcard will work on a PCI Express or 
>> PCI-X motherboard. Specifically I am looking at the Dell 850 1U rack 
>> server for use with Asterisk.
>
>
> They will work in PCI-X of course  but not PCI Express.  They are 
> totally different.
>
> You will need the 3.3v cards.
>
>
> Kevin
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