[asterisk-users] Re: Re: Re: TE420P/TE415P?

[Matt Florell]

On 7/31/06, Julio Arruda <jarruda-asterisk at jarruda.com> wrote:
> Matt Florell wrote:
> > Yes, that is very confusing :)
> >
> > Is there no way to throw a timer chip in there(I suppose it's way too
> > late to put that suggestion forward now)?
>
> Curiosity, isn't the timer from the 2.6 kernel 'good enough' for
> Asterisk purposes nowadays ?
> Or there is a constraint using 2.6+ztdummy that is not obvious (to me at
> least :-)) ?

It can be a very confusing set of steps to get ztdummy installed
properly depending on the version of 2.6 kernel that you are using,
and it is usually not as accurate of a timer as a zaptel hardware
timer is.

If the card contains a zaptel timer you don't need to worry about
possibly compiling a custom Linux kernel or activating special Linux
kernel modules for it to work. You just install the card with zaptel
and the timer will work no matter what version of Linux 2.6 you use.

MATT---