[Asterisk-Users] drivers, kernel 2.6 and distribution

[Carlos Hernandez]

I use FC2, and I have found the following:

I did not try * with the distro's kernel. I had not started with my 
testing with asterisk.
I upgraded to kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1
I then started my testing, and had troubles loading the zaptel modules
Someone in the IRC reccomended to use 2.6.7
I did, copied the .config across, updated all the symlinks, compiled 
2.6.7 (latest stable at the moment)
Zaptel now runs fine, asterisks runs fine

I am just learning all about extensions.conf. Asterisk crashes now and 
then when I do something stupid on the extensions.conf. This happens 
mostly when I do changes to the conf files, and do a reload, and I am 
usually "ssh-ing" from a remote location and I have to wait a few hours 
before getting home and hitting the reset button...)

I would say:  should * crash, it should not take the machine with it..
I really see the need of a good how-to for the dial plan.. the wiki 
documentation seems patched, not in sequence, and I 'm not going to buy 
books..
I also need to find out how to de-bug, or get outputs so I can check why 
it crashed..

Regards,
Carlos

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Steve Underwood wrote:

> Leif Madsen wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:58:04 -0700, Florin Andrei
>> <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 13:12, Leif Madsen wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> ztdummy works fine on FC2.  I was able to get a TDM400P to work first
>>>> try.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Using the distro kernel, or the vanilla 2.6?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Distro kernel.
>>
>> When doing the installation, the only package groups I installed were
>> "Editors", "Development Tools" and "Kernel Sources".  However you
>> shouldn't need kernel sources, just make a symlink to
>> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/
>>  
>>
> When I use the kernels supplied with FC2, my Tyan 2665 dual Xeon M/B 
> is fine with the single processor kernel. However, with the SMP kernel 
> it locks hard as soon as I open a port on a TE410P or E400P cards. I 
> tried both the original SMP kernel, and the later FC2 updates, all 
> with the same effect. When I replaced the kernel with the stock 
> 2.6.8rc2 kernel these problems went away. I have had no further 
> trouble. I have no idea what is wrong with the FC2 kernels (or perhaps 
> is just incompatible with zaptel). I actually used the .config file 
> from FC2 to build the stock kernel, so this isn't some strange select 
> in the kernel configuration. I guess on the Fedora private patches 
> have some unfortunate side effect.
>
> The bottom line seems to be that most reports of trouble with * and 
> Linux 2.6 stem from the use of the FC2 kernels.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
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