[asterisk-users] Configuring Sangoma BRI with zaptel?

[Claus Herwig]

Hakan C wrote:

> I've never used BRI but you can take a look to wiki.sangoma.com 
> <http://wiki.sangoma.com>

As you probably could have imagined after reading my post, I did this 
already.

But while their support for analog and PRI cards seems to be really good 
(from what you hear around), I found their documentation for the 
BRI/A500 card quite a mess.

As of now they officialy only support a configuration with their bri/smg 
daemons. Thats a lot of unneeded overhead for an asterisk only 
configuration, and it also doesn't work on my setup. Gives me all kinds 
of wired segfaults and even kernel panics. Which was the main reason for 
me to ask how to configure it the other way round.

Greets,
   Claus

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Claus Herwig <lists at checon.de 
> <mailto:lists at checon.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     there has been a post to this list somewhere arount april which said
>     that it is possible to use a Sangoma BRI A500 card with zaptel and
>     asterisk bristuff. That is, without sangoma_brid and sangoma_mgd daemons
>     and without woomera channels.
> 
>     Could anybody give me a short hint how to configure this?
> 
>     I tried wanpipe-driver + zaptel + asterisk-bristuffed, but I couldn't
>     get zaptel to recognize the sangoma channels.
> 
>     modprobe wanpipe did load zaptel module and others but no spans appeared
>     in /proc/zaptel or /etc/zaptel.conf.
> 
>     I tried various config options of the wanpipe setup tool, but to no
>     avail.
> 
>     genzaptelconf -d displays correct cardinfo but doesn't seem to get the
>     channels.
> 
>     Config:
>     debian etch with kernel 2.6.18-5-amd64 on x86_64
>     sangoma a503de (PCIe 6x BRI w/ Echo Cancel)
>     asterisk 1.4.13-BRIstuffed-0.4.0-test4 (from
>     pkg-voip.buildserver.net <http://pkg-voip.buildserver.net/>)
>     zaptel 1.4.7 (from pkg-voip)
>     wanpipe 3.3.14 (newest beta)
> 
>     Same config (without wanpipe of course) works well with a digium TE220
>     (PCIe 2x PRI).
> 
> 
>     Any hints would be greatly appreciated as I'm banging my head about this
>     for some days now ;-)
> 
>       Claus