[Asterisk-Users] "Out the box" solutions?

[Remco Barende]

A good alternative would be to try a free rebuild of RedHat Enterprise 
Linux, for example www.taolinux.org. Just use the 32 bit version, the 
64 bit version (if you would have the cpu) gives me trouble compiling the 
kernel modules.

With 32 bit Tao it runs almost out of the box and works like a charm. You 
get the (community) support, the updates, just not the RHEL bill :)

Fedora is way too experimental for any system you would want to be 
stable IMHO. Choosing any free RedHat EL rebuild is a safe, conservative 
and widely supported choice and easy to install (lots of docs)

Cheers!

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Lane wrote:

> Hi, again.
>
> I've spent a week trying to get asterisk to work on FreeBSD unix, with some
> success.  Everything works until I plug the box into the TELCO line and then
> the line goes off-hook and stays that way.
>
> So I bit the bullet and decided to install the application on a fresh linux
> install.  Not to start an OS war, here, but linux is ... difficult ... for an
> old unix hand to get his mind around.  It's a completely different landscape!
> And why is it that /etc/modules.conf in one release is /etc/modprobe.conf in
> another?  Is this beast not based on standards?
>
> But I digress.
>
> I chose FC3 (Fedora Core) for the install, and now I'm sorry that I did.
>
> At least with unix I was able to get a dial tone!  Not so much with this
> flavor of linux.  Each time I run "modprobe wcfxs" I get the following errors
> in /var/log/messages:
>
> Jan  5 17:57:59 asterisk wait_for_sysfs[2782]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev
> 039)needs an update to handle the device '/class/zaptel/zap1' properly (no
> device symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be
> fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Jan  5 17:57:59 asterisk wait_for_sysfs[2784]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev
> 039)needs an update to handle the device '/class/zaptel/zap2' properly (no
> device symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be
> fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Jan  5 17:57:59 asterisk wait_for_sysfs[2786]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev
> 039)needs an update to handle the device '/class/zaptel/zap3' properly (no
> device symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be
> fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Jan  5 17:57:59 asterisk wait_for_sysfs[2788]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev
> 039)needs an update to handle the device '/class/zaptel/zap4' properly (no
> device symlink) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be
> fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
> I'm not so interested in notifying these guys at lists.sourceforge.net, since
> I'm only interested in running asterisk.  Once I commit to actually using
> linux I might participate in their forum, but not yet :)
>
> So ... the question:  What flavor of linux does asterisk actually run on "Out
> the box?"
>
> I'm not scared to compile asterisk, but I'm not at all interested in
> recompiling a linux kernel.
>
> Of course if that is the only way, then I guess I'll just bite another bullet.
> Hell!  I want this PBX to work so bad that I can almost taste it!
>
> Please advise.
>
> lane
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