[asterisk-users] Re: Meetme... No channel type registered for 'zap'

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Mountifield [mailto:tony at softins.clara.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:26 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Re: Meetme... No channel type registered for
> 'zap'
> 
> 
> In article 
> <645FEC31A18FE54A8721500CDD55A7B603507677 at mail.oneeighty.com>,
> Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> > Kristian,
> >  
> > I don't have any zap hardware.... What do I put in 
> zaptel.conf if I don't have any hardware?
> > On some other systems we have, with chan_zap not loaded, 
> and no zaptel.conf (running
> > 1.2.9.1), meetme runs fine. This system with the problem 
> has 1.2.12.1. I wonder if something
> > was changed?
> 
> Doug, it sounds to me like you don't have the /dev/zap device files.
> 
> Do you have the file /etc/udev/permissions.d/zaptel.permissions and
> /etc/udev/rules.d/zaptel.rules installed?

Tony, I don't have /etc/udev/permissions.d/, but I do have the other file.

demeter:(acd1)ipt # ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d/zaptel.rules
-r--r--r--  1 root root 498 Oct 24 15:50 /etc/udev/rules.d/zaptel.rules

> 
> What Linux distro are you using?

I'm using Gentoo Linux, and have been for a number of months. This is the first time this problem has cropped up. If I have ztdummy installed, why do I need the device files? Isn't that what ztdummy is supposed to do?

Doug.