[Asterisk-Users] Is my card bad?

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 12:21, Joe Antkowiak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a 1 port T1 card in an asus p4p800-vm board with a 2.0g Celeron, and
> 512m of 266mhz ram (256 on each channel).  This board has video, Ethernet,
> and serial ata all on-board, I got it because of that, there wouldn't be
> anything else on the pci bus that would mess with the zaptel card(s).

While these devices may not be cards plugged into the PCI bus, it is
most likely the same PCI bus. Do a lspci and post the results and we
will be able to point out how you tell they are on the same PCI bus.

> So, here's my problem.  I'm running redhat 9 with kernel 2.4.20-20.9.  I can
> load the zaptel module fine.  I can also load the wct1xxp module fine.  But,
> after I load the wct1xxp module, I notice that the entire box just freezes
> for about 3 seconds every 30 seconds.  Zttool sees the card fine, doesn't
> see any problems (other than the circuit down), and there are no irq misses.
> Within 3 seconds of starting *, the entire box just hangs, and never
> recovers.


send a copy of your /proc/interupts file too.

> The only other thing on the same pci bus as the t1 card is the onboard
> Ethernet controller, and nothing is sharing its irq (5).  I also tried
> messing with the pci latency timer.  The default was 64, I tried 32, 64, 96,
> and 128.  I did notice though, as the numbers got smaller, the time the
> system was frozen and the interval of the freezing became shorter (ie 64 was
> twice as long as 32).
> 
> Just to try it, I removed the span config for this card from zaptel.conf,
> and wa-la, no more freezing, but then my card wasn't configured at all.  *
> would then start, but its pointless then.
> 
> This is a new box, and I've never been able to get this to work.   Any
> ideas?
> 
> -Joe
> 
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Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>