[asterisk-users] Echo and static on PRI with errors

[Steve Totaro]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Steve Totaro <stotaro at first-notification.com
> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Tom O'Connor <tom at twinhelix.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Marco Signorini <marcotasto at libero.it>wrote:
>>
>>>  Tom O'Connor wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Francesco Peeters <
>>> francesco at fampeeters.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> John F. Ervin wrote:
>>>> > What do you do if you find things sharing interrupts (IRQ 11) in my
>>>> > case with my X100P card.  I believe there is some sort of internal
>>>> > audio card in my cheap slow PC.
>>>> >
>>>>  Check the BIOS whether you can:
>>>> Change the IRQ assignments
>>>> Disable the extra hardware using the same IRQ
>>>>
>>>> Or otherwise try changing the slot it is in... I had very good results
>>>> in the past swapping card around
>>>>
>>>> Good luck!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I did a bit of investigation WRT the IRQ settings on this box.
>>>
>>> 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
>>> (prog-if 20)
>>>     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3207
>>>     Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
>>> --
>>> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2
>>> MX/MX 400] (rev b2)
>>>     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3207
>>>     Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>>> --
>>> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721
>>> Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
>>>     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3209
>>>     Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
>>> --
>>> 81:01.0 Network controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISDN
>>> interface
>>>     Subsystem: Device 79fe:0001
>>>     Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>>>
>>> So basically there's 2 network cards and a USB controller sharing IRQ 11
>>> with the Openvox card.
>>>
>>> I wasn't able to find any settings in the bios to manually configure IRQ
>>> assignments :(
>>>
>>> Could someone tell me how to set which IRQ the ISDN card picks up?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tom O'Connor
>>>
>>> http://www.twinhelix.org
>>> tom at twinhelix.org
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Unfortunately is not always possible and it depends on how the mainboard
>>> was realized. For what I can understand a lot of producers decide to route
>>> only a subset of physical IRQ lines to the PCI slots (I think is something
>>> related to cost reduction) and to share it with other onboard peripherals.
>>> This lets impossible to change the IRQ assignment for expansion cards.
>>>
>>> This is not always true and sometimes swapping add-on cards solves the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> We had better results with cards based on new Digium technology or with
>>> Sangoma cards.
>>>
>>> There is almost no room for manouvering in the HP bios.  There's no
>> ability to disable stuff like parallel ports, or anything else really.
>>
>> I don't think i'd buy digium hardware again.  I'm already considering
>> RMAing these cards and getting Sangoma ones.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tom O'Connor
>>
>> http://www.twinhelix.org
>> tom at twinhelix.org
>>
>>
> That is one option.  The new line Digium cards are on par with Sangoma as
> far as IRQ issues.
>
> I really like Sangoma's lifetime warranty though.  I don't think Digium has
> countered that bold move.
>
> I would try the RMA and if that doesn't work, you can always pickup a
> decent last year's model server at
> http://www.surpluscomputers.com/featured-hardware/cg-69/servers.html
>
> For a basic asterisk server or PBX with nothing special going on, any of
> these servers are more than enough, even overkill.
>
> No affiliation, I have to say the shipping is high and they are slow to
> ship but the prices are great, never had an issue with any of their boxen
> (dozens, knock on wood....)
>

I wish I had seen this
http://www.surpluscomputers.com/348694/ibm-10-pack-ibm-x335-dual.html before
buying ten of these
http://www.surpluscomputers.com/348663/hp-dl140-proliant-dual-xeon.html

The ten pack of servers won't allow me to get past shipping so it may be a
mistake but I am pretty sure it wasn't listed yesterday so maybe they just
need to update shipping costs.

-- 
Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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