[asterisk-users] Dahdi > CAPI migration

[Patrick Laimbock]

On 08-08-14 10:09, Toney Mareo wrote:
> Hello
>
> Thank you for your response. I thought it could be easier moving the old card to the new machine and using the DAHDI driver. Unfortunately my first attempt for this failed. The card shows up in the original machine as:
>
>> dahdi_hardware -v
> pci:0000:00:00.0     wcb4xxp+     1397:08b4 Junghanns QuadBRI ISDN card

IIRC the wcb4xx module is correct for this card.

> 00:00.0 ISDN controller: Cologne Chip Designs GmbH ISDN network Controller [HFC-4S] (rev 01)
>      Subsystem: Cologne Chip Designs GmbH HFC-4S [IOB4ST]
>      Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>      Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>      Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
>      Region 0: I/O ports at 9400 [size=8]
>      Region 1: Memory at f2841000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>      Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>          Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>          Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> The second machine recognized it as well and as I said the OS-es were clones (so all drivers, settings should be indentical), still after start the DAHDI driver loaded but didn't work from Asterisk:

What do you mean with "the OS-es were clones ..."? Did you create an 
image of the old Trixbox machine and installed that on the new machine?

Which versions are you using of:
the OS?
dahdi-linux?
dahdi-tools?
libpri?
asterisk?

Are you using mISDN too?

> Running dahdi_cfg:  DAHDI_SPANCONFIG failed on span 1: No such device or address (6)
> No hardware timing source found in /proc/dahdi, loading dahdi_dummy

In general it could be that the card is not recognized or that there's a 
conflict with another kernel module or your dahdi config is incorrect or 
the udev rules are missing or wrong, etc.

> Any ideas how to proceed from this point?

Since you have provided not very much information one can only guess. 
Only by providing as much information as possible can you help us help you.

So please answer all the questions, provide the versions as asked, give 
the output of lsdahdi, check the logfiles (/var/log/messages etc) for 
dahdi info, check the dahdi config and blacklist files and provide that 
with anything else you can think of.

AFAIK the Junghanns QuadBRI ISDN card should work fine with a recent 
DAHDI so why do you want to change to an AVM C4 card that requires 
chan_capi that hasn't seen any recent development and does not support 
Asterisk 11 or later? Asterisk 1.8 will only be supported for another 
year and then you are stuck again with an obsolete system that no longer 
gets any (security!) updates.

If you can, why not stay with the Junghanns card and put a fresh CentOS 
6.5 + updates on the new machine together with the latest version of 
dahdi-linux, dahdi-tools, libpri and asterisk. And then copy your old 
dialplan over to the new machine and make the required changes so it 
works with the latest Asterisk 11. Or you could install the latest 
FreePBX iso on the new machine if you prefer a GUI.

HTH,
Patrick