[asterisk-users] ISDN BRI support with HFC-PCI cards?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:32:03PM +0100, Jaap Winius wrote:
> Quoting Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>:
> 
> >> Could someone please point me in the direction of some reasonable   
> >> instructions
> >> for setting up ISDN BRI support for Asterisk 1.2 (Debian etch) with
> >> HFC-PCI cards (Cologne chips) and/or cards with Winbond W6692CF chips?
> >
> >   apt-get install asterisk zaptel-source
> >   m-a a-i zaptel
> >   echo "#include zapata-channels.conf" >>/etc/asterisk/zapata.conf
> >   genzaptelconf -sd
> >
> > That should basically do it.
> 
> That looks promising, but am I right that this requires the zaptel package to
> be installed as well? Otherwise there's no genzaptelconf (or one that  
> works). 

IIRC asterisk requires zaptel. (apt-cache depends asterisk)

> However, after installing the zaptel package, I get these  
> errors:
> 
>     # genzaptelconf -sd
>     Stopping Asterisk PBX: asterisk.
>     cat: /tmp/tmp.uiMna12463/span_termtype: No such file or directory
>     cat: /tmp/tmp.uiMna12463/span_termtype: No such file or directory
>     Starting Asterisk PBX: asterisk.

cat /proc/zaptel/*

>     #
> 
> Looks like it's not creating its temporary directory in /tmp. Any ideas?

Those temporary files is where it stores its configuration variables (to
pass information from a subshell to a parent shell). Did I mention that
this got later reqritten in Perl?

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