[Asterisk-Users] Re: zaptel startup issues solved

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <20040529113142.278E9243464 at lists.digium.com>,
Mike Stupak <mstupak at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 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?

I think it expects the kernel source tree to match the running kernel.

If you had built a new kernel called 2.6.5-1.315custom and then booted from
it, you would probably have built zaptel successfully. I think :-)

Cheers
Tony

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