[asterisk-users] chan_capi install problems

[Armin Schindler]

On Sat, 26 May 2007, CSB wrote:
> I have installed Asterisk 1.2.18 am am trying to install chan_capi.
> 
> The current RPM
> ftp://ftp.melware.net/Trixbox/chan_capi-1.0.1_1.2.14-1.i386.rpm installs but

This precompiled RPM is for the previous trixbox asterisk version 1.2.14. 
A new RPM will follow soon...

> Asterisk dies on startup. The following appears in the log:
> May 27 03:28:18 asterisk1 kernel: divas: Diva Server V-4BRI-8 IRQ:7
> SerNo:25290
> May 27 03:28:18 asterisk1 kernel: divas: started with major 252
> May 27 03:54:17 asterisk1 init: Trying to re-exec init
> 
> The install notes say that the Asterisk version of the rpm must match so I
> guess that's the problem.

exactly.
 
> Downloading and making ftp://ftp.melware.net/chan-capi/chan_capi-1.0.1.tar.gz
> gives me a bunch of errors mostly "error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete
> type"

If you want to compile chan-capi by yourself, you need to install all dev- 
packages to have the needed header files. I think this should do it:
  yum -y install isdn4k-utils-devel asterisk-devel

But if the trixbox asterisk version again has special patches applied
(something like jitterbuffer patch) which is not known to external modules 
like chan-capi, the compiled chan-capi may cause craches because it just 
doesn't match with the configured asterisk header files.

Armin