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

[Rich Adamson]

If I recall correctly, there was a cvs change recently to support the
new card. My current cvs-head wctdm.c is dated June 22. You probably 
need to pull a fresh copy of the zaptel directory.

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> 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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