[asterisk-users] DAHDI aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhh :((((

[sean darcy]

Remco Barendse wrote:
> The information (or lack of it) on upgrading from zaptel to that 
> @&*^QW%&^%!!!  dahdi is very frustrating.
> 
> I cannot find anything on how to uninstall zaptel, i found an earlier post 
> to this list which suggested make uninstall and make remove in the zaptel 
> directory which just generates errors and does nothing (on zaptel 12.1).
> 
> Then i install dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools and i want to start configuring 
> it, so i am trying dahdi_genconf like the docs suggested which generates 
> this really helpful error message :
> /usr/sbin/dahdi_genconf: Cannot read '/etc/dahdi/genconf_parameters': No 
> such file or directory
> 
> Also the config files and everything are much more complicated 
> for dahdi than they were for zaptel
> 
> There was some nice documentation and examples on how to get started with 
> configuring certain devices with zaptel on the digium page, for my TDM11B 
> they only mention zaptel.....
> 
> Did anyone even try this?
> 

It'll work. But it's not easy. I didn't find dahdi_genconf helpful.

Post your /etc/dahdi/system.conf ( the analogue of zaptel.conf ) and 
/etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.conf ( analogue of zapata.conf ).

With some help, you'll fix this.

sean