[Asterisk-Users] zaptel startup issues solved

[Mike Stupak]

I was having trouble getting zaptel to startup.  Thought I'd share my
experience since I saw others with the same issue and no solutions.  I'm
running Fedora FC2.  Symptoms were:


xtcfg -vv that says that it's "unable to open master device /etc/dev/ctl"

modprobe zaptel was also failing

/var/log/messages had messages like:
Apr 12 18:48:45 asterisk kernel: zaptel: version magic '2.6.5-1.315custom
686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3' should be '2.6.5-1.315 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS
gcc-3.3'

The solution was to go into /usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/version.h and
change the UTS_RELEASE string from '2.6.5-1.315custom' to '2.6.5-1.315'

Then rebuild zaptel, install and run again.

Obviously I chose the "custom" option when I setup the OS.  Is there someway
to fix the zaptel code to not be so picky?

  -mike