[Asterisk-Users] How can you check that egTDM04B hardwareinstalled and drivers OK

[Steve Totaro]

I just purchased two rev I boards and they cannot be recognized at all but a
revision H (that reports E/F) board works ok.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Novack" <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 6:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] How can you check that egTDM04B
hardwareinstalled and drivers OK


> Probably means that your perfectly good motherboard can't see the TDM
card.
> There are many motherboards that this card doesn't seem to work with,
> Digium doesn't seem willing to address the issue or even acknowledge
> that is the case, and usually answers " try another motherboard" rather
> than 'fess up that there is a design problem with the PCI interface and
> correct it.
> PCI 2.2 is a stated requirement, but there is certainly more to the
> story than that.
>
> In addition, when the board CAN be seen, report rev E/F when  the
> silkscreen reads Rev H, someone mentioned there is now a Rev I ( good
> luck getting an exchange ) and Digium 's answer is " if we can see it
> through remote access" then there is no reason to replace it, and if we
> can't, try another MB.
>
> Overall, if it works, lucky you, if not, Too bad.
> Hard to support Digium and suggest others purchase such a product.
> Best you look for other interfaces to Asterisk.
>
> John Novack
>
>
>
>
> Angus Comber wrote:
>
> > If I try dmesg - no mention of a Wildcard TDM400.
> >
> > Sorry I am fairly new to Linux.  In Windows I suppose I would run some
> > hardware program which came with the card to see if I could manually
> > set IRQ's etc.  What should I be looking at now?
> >
> > Please feel free to point me to a good book or whatever you feel is
> > appropriate.  Could the card be faulty?
> >
> > My motherboard is an Intel D865GLC.
> >
> > I am running Asteiks at Home version 1.0
> >
> > Angus
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike M"
> > <no-linux-support at earthlink.net>
> > To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] How can you check that eg TDM04B
> > hardwareinstalled and drivers OK
> >
> >
> >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:09:46AM -0600, Rich Adamson wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> > I am struggling to get my TDM04B working.  Just to rule out a
> >>> hardware > problem how can I check
> >>> that the hardware works?  How can I then
> >>> > check that the drivers are loaded correctly?
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> 1. from the linux command line, type 'dmesg' and look for
> >>>  Found a Wildcard TDM: Wildcard TDM400P REV H (4 modules)
> >>> if you see that, the TDM card is recognized by the OS.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Here's what I get on a working system:
> >>
> >> [root at b2 src]# modprobe wctdm
> >> [root at b2 src]# Jun 21 10:10:55 b2 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device
> >> 01:0a.0
> >> Jun 21 10:10:55 b2 kernel: Freshmaker version: 71
> >> Jun 21 10:10:55 b2 kernel: Freshmaker passed register test
> >> Jun 21 10:10:55 b2 kernel: Module 0: Installed -- AUTO FXS/DPO
> >> Jun 21 10:10:55 b2 kernel: Module 1: Not installed
> >> Jun 21 10:10:55 b2 kernel: Module 2: Not installed
> >> Jun 21 10:10:55 b2 kernel: Module 3: Not installed
> >> Jun 21 10:10:55 b2 kernel: Found a Wildcard TDM: Wildcard TDM400P REV
> >> E/F (4 modules)
> >> Jun 21 10:10:55 b2 kernel: Registered tone zone 0 (United States /
North
> >> America)
> >>
> >> [root at b2 src]# cat /proc/interrupts
> >>           CPU0
> >>  0:   17893766          XT-PIC  timer
> >>  1:          2          XT-PIC  keyboard
> >>  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
> >>  4:  357411641          XT-PIC  eth0, wanpipe1
> >>  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
> >> 10:    3381408          XT-PIC  Intel ICH2
> >> 11:  178236906          XT-PIC  wctdm
> >> 14:      50492          XT-PIC  ide0
> >> 15:          0          XT-PIC  ide1
> >> NMI:          0
> >> ERR:          0
> >> [root at b2 src]# cat /proc/interrupts
> >>           CPU0
> >>  0:   17894203          XT-PIC  timer
> >>  1:          2          XT-PIC  keyboard
> >>  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
> >>  4:  357419974          XT-PIC  eth0, wanpipe1
> >>  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
> >> 10:    3381408          XT-PIC  Intel ICH2
> >> 11:  178241275          XT-PIC  wctdm
> >> 14:      50494          XT-PIC  ide0
> >> 15:          0          XT-PIC  ide1
> >> NMI:          0
> >> ERR:          0
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Mike
> >
>
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