[asterisk-users] CHANUNAVAIL with a TDM800 card

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:56:06PM -0700, hin lee wrote:
> Tzafrir,
> 
> You are correct!  I didn't have to commented out the unused FXO ports. So to revise my earlier email, I have to do the following:
> 
> 1) Run genzaptelconf
> 
> 2) Run "cat /proc/zaptel/*" to find the channel my line is connected to.
> 
> 3) Add my channel to /etc/asterisk/zapata-channels.conf

Why is that? genzaptelconf should generate that file.

> 
>  ie. channel => 1
> 
>  I'm not sure why I have to do this manually.  My zapata-channels.conf file is blank and doesn't work until I put the "channel => X" to it.
> 
> 4) Of course, reboot the server.

Why is that? 'dahdi restart' should do. Or in the worst case, restart
asterisk.

> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 10/30/08, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>
> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] CHANUNAVAIL with a TDM800 card
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 11:20 AM
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:03:03AM -0700, hin lee wrote:
> > > I got this working.  For what it's worth,
> > here's what the issue.  
> > > 
> > > The channel wasn't getting created under FreePBX
> > via script.  Here's what I needed to do:
> > > 
> > > 1) Run genzaptelconf  to generate the zaptel configs
> > 
> > This generates you /etc/zaptel.conf and
> > /etc/asterisk/zapata-channels.conf (or
> > /etc/asterisk/zapata-auto.conf ,
> > in the modified versions by some distributions).
> > 
> > > 
> > > 2) find the channel the port(s) is on.
> > > 
> > > 	cat /proc/zaptel/*
> > > 	
> > > 3) comment out the unused ports in /etc/zaptel.conf
> > based on step 2 result.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > > 
> > > 4) put in the available channel in
> > /etc/asterisk/zapata-channels.conf
> > > 
> > > ie. channel => 1
> > 
> > So I gather it has generated for you zapata-auto.conf but
> > zapata.conf
> > #include-s zapata-channels.conf . You're confused (or
> > someone did some
> > bad integration work).
> > 
> > > 
> > > 5) comment out the unused channels in
> > /etc/asterisk/zapata-auto.conf
> > > 
> > > 
> > >
> > http://www.freepbx.org/support/documentation/administration-guide/interfacing-to-a-pstn
> > 
> > This thing should be removed. It is aufully confusing and
> > completely
> > outdated. I think it is slightly worse than no information
> > at all, as
> > the defaults of freepbx would have worked for you if you
> > just ran
> > genzaptelconf .
> > 
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