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

[Bruno Hertz]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 12:15 +1100, Adam Goryachev wrote:

> Personally, I've never had a problem with Debian.

I'd second that. Just last month, I tried to install asterisk
with AVM proprietary CAPI drivers on FC3, and it didn't work.
The driver just could not be loaded. I then switched to Debian
Sarge with 2.6 kernel and everything went fine.

FC really can be seen as a testing distribution for RH Enterprise,
it may be OK for the home desktop but I would not recommend it for
production server use.

Apart from that, although I don't know what driver it is you're
trying to load, the problem seems to be related to the 2.6
kernel resp. the driver not being properly updated to the 2.6
architecture. sysfs is a 'virtual' filesystem introduced with 2.6,
and somehow the driver doesn't support it as either the kernel
or hotplug expect it. I would suggest trying a 2.4 kernel if
some was supported by FC3, but afaik this is not the case.

Anyway, again for production servers you better use Debian,
where you can even choose stable with 2.4 kernel - and some
people still refuse to switch to 2.6 - or Slackware or even
Suse. But certainly not FC3.

Regards, Bruno.