[asterisk-users] mISDN configuration

[James Harper]

> Hello everyone,
> I'm trying to set up an Asterisk machine with a quad-port BRI
> Junghanns card, and I want to use the mISDN drivers.
> 
> I'm having some trouble configuring it: do I need to use CAPI drivers?
> I haven't found good links, could you please provide some info?

At what point are you stuck? There are a few steps to the process:

. Set up misdn-init.conf
. Configure asterisk/misdn.conf
. Configure extensions.conf appropriately

CAPI is just another API to access the hardware, and it is more platform
independent (mISDN is Linux only I believe). Some adapters have a CAPI
driver which accesses the hardware directly. Otherwise, there is a CAPI
driver which sits on top of mISDN. misdn-init can configure either mISDN
or mISDN+CAPI.

I prefer to use chan_misdn as it just seems like one less layer (eg CAPI
on top of mISDN) to go wrong.

hth

James