[Asterisk-Users] Re: Sangoma A102 cards testing FIXED

[Vikram Rangnekar]

Its fixed and working great.
> 
> I was working on the dma issue that nenad pointed out and 
> when i tried to hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda my harddisk i got a 
> permissioned denied error (I was root) So i started 
> researching a bit more and realised that since i have a sata 
> hdd and running it in IDE mode i cant start dma so i just 
> recompiled the kernel with sata drivers and scsi activated 
> then i change the bio SATA setting to SATA ENHANCED (nothing 
> else seems to work) and changed the root=/dev/hda2 to 
> root=/dev/sda2 in the kernel boot options and i was on my 
> way. now when i tierd hdparm -d 1 /dev/sda i was told that 
> scsi dosent have dma so it didnt matter.
> 
> Next i started the wanpipe drivers and started asterisk i 
> didnt get any errors so to test th config i used
> 
> exten => 111,1,Dial(Zap/g1/301)
> exten => 111,2,Hangup
> 
> and dialed that extension 111 and the extension 301 rang. i 
> had started pri intense debugging and used show channels to 
> make sure the call went over the e1 channels.
> 
> i'm still testing it, it seems to be working great right now 
> only error i got was a FCS BAD or somthing like that once.
> 
> My motherboard is a SuperMicro P4SCI just for your information.

+++ Vikram Rangnekar [13/02/05 13:01 +0100]:
> 
> Does anyone have any experience ith configureing the sangoma A102 card for
> testing using a e1 cross cable i've configured and installed the cards
> properly even the lights on the card are green which proves that my cross
> cable is properly built too. my problem is with asterisk which gives me these
> errors
> 
> PRI got event: HDLC Abort (6)on Primary D-channel of span 1
> PRI got event: HDLC Bad FCS (8) on Primary D-channel of span 2
> No D-channels available! Using Primary on channel anyways 47!
> PRI: !! Not good - head of queue has not been transmitted yet
> 
> 
> I've tried everything i can think off with the wancfg configuration files
> here is my zaptel and zapata configs.
> 
> span=1,0,0,ccs,hdb3
> bchan=1-15
> dchan=16
> bchan=17-31
> 
> span=2,1,0,ccs,hdb3
> bchan=32-46
> dchan=47
> bchan=48-62
> 
> --------------------------
> zapata.conf
> 
> switchtype=euroisdn
> signalling=pri_net
> group=1
> channel=>1-15
> channel=>17-31
> 
> group=2
> signalling=pri_cpe
> channel=>32-46
> channel=>48-62
> -------------------------------
> do i need to fool around with some jumpers on the card or something to
> activate internal clock on the card. zttol says INTERNALLY CLOCKED for both
> the ports. There are NO Alarms and no missed IRQ's 
> I'm using asterisk 1.0.5 on debian with 2.4.29 kernel
> 
> -- 
> regards
> Vikram (http://www.vicramresearch.com)
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