[Asterisk-Users] configure intel modems.....

Sat Nov 26 07:05:49 MST 2005

Thanks Mark,

phone system is a panasonic 1232 digital hi-bread thingy.... im fairly 
privy to it and can reprogram etc. and with that, should be able to go 
ether way,
- i thought that i could hang asterisk of one of the analog extensions 
with a voice modem.
- the other way would be to hang it on an incoming line or CO.
the later probably being the better solution. ether way i should be able 
to connect both ways???
ie. from a land line extension would be able to ring the extension that 
asterisk is on and make asterisk call over voip.
or with a soft phone from lappy with wireless be able to go through 
asterisk to make land line calls.

the old dell machine is a poweredge 2300, all scsi and 2x P2 350 
processors. a nice old high end server( in its day! )

im using the asterisk at home 1.3 and ill have to check(machine not on at 
the moment)
but you may have something with the kernel configuring the modem, i seem 
to remember the config page during one of the startups..
not sure, (but now that you have said that..... i can feel something in 
my water.)
maybe some body out there knows weather asterisk at home does configure 
modems or serial devices during startup??..

i have checked the interrupts when i was having trouble with the 2 
modems installed, and its all cool.( and that answers prev. Question. )

im not that tight, just at the moment things are not to plan, wife just 
spat 34week prem boy
and 2 trips to the hospital and back each day, and back to 1 income 
makes it hard, is all....

i heard a whisper that the digium cards were actually voice modems( so i 
though it should not be that hard ),
and when i looked at the pics they look exactly the same.
pics are not good enough to pick components though...

im not that new to Linux, have been system admin of more than 50 
machines ( mixed win/lin) for a few years now,
i have come to love Linux and dread windows....
and windows seems to be getting worse, trying to keep up or ahead of 
Linux (depends who you talk to..)

asterisk is an excellent piece of software and deserves more attention.

thanks again Mark for your guidance, help.....i was scratching my head 
with this one....

any advice you have is much appreciated....

i will check to see if the modem has been configured by the kernel, this 
will explain why asterisk cannot see the card.

thanks again Mark..... excellent!!!

Phil

Mark Edwards wrote:

>What sort of connection are you after for the Panasonic phone system? I
>mean, what are you trying to achieve in connecting to it? Understanding
>this might help with defining the best way to achieve a connection.
>
>You should be able to locate a cheap card as per Kerrys post. Due to
>variability of the intel cards, might be better to either shell out for
>a "proper" clone or to find an FXO gateway of some sort. You should be
>able to do this without soldering iron. Probably quicker to interrogate
>lspci -v and then alter the driver code for wcfxo.ko if appropriate.
>
>Also, make sure that your kernel isn't identifying this card as a
>"serial" device and bagging all the interrupts. If this is happening,
>then wcfxo won't get to play. You might need to recompile your kernel to
>have the serial core as a module and then just not load it, or wait
>until wcfxo has grabbed the card.
>
>As for the dell power-edge, there as certainly some issues with some of
>these servers with the digium cards, but this might not be such a
>problem with the fxo card. I would recommend though that you try and
>avoid any IRQ sharing if possible. This will require configuration
>through the BIOS and will be motherboard dependent. 
>
>Regards,
>
>Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Phil Pritchard [mailto:phil at pritchard.asn.au] 
>Sent: Saturday, 26 November 2005 7:30 PM
>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] configure intel modems.....
>
>thanks Mark,
>     your right i have been getting confused between office and 
>station(given myself an uppercut and a slap to the back of the head),
>thats sort of what im after, but does not really give any quick fix or 
>details for config files for making asterisk use this card.
>     i am a new player to asterisk and have it connected to fwd and a 
>few soft phones.
>because i am tight( well, just dont have the money ) i have to try one 
>of these cheap cards to connect to a panasonic phone system.
>
>
>i have one of these modems and thought i would give it a go. there is 
>plenty of info about for connecting to Digium cards
>but have not seen/found anything useful, re: the intel voice modems.
>
>    i can surface mount solder but without knowing what components are 
>what i dont want to remove anything,
>there are no markings on the board for the components, well not enough 
>anyway.( eg. R13 and R19)
>so that sort of stumps that!
>
>    originally i had 2 cards in there but the second card did funny 
>things to the server... ie.
>- soft phones would half login, i can make calls but cannot receive. the
>
>logs for the soft phone said something about
>sip protocol error, although the voice quality was fine and both ways.
>- there was no music on hold at all.
>
>i have removed the second card and server back to normal, only still no 
>pots line.
>
>i have tried to config modem on what i have found on the net but its 
>still not working, the modem is there and working.
>lsmod says the module(zapa..) is loaded but not used.
>
>the machine is an old dell power edge, without usb....  i read some 
>thing about asterisk needing the usb for something internal
>is this true,
> will i have to change the hardware or add a usb card.......
>
>thanks again Mark
>
>
>
>Phil
>
>
>
>Mark Edwards wrote:
>
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>>Phil.
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>>You won't have much luck achieving this. The closest you will be able
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>to
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>>get is to set the intel voice modem up as an FXO port. Was this what
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>you
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>>meant?
>>If so, take a look on the voip-info.org site as there is a page there
>>that will point you in the right direction. 
>>
>>http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/X100P+clone
>>
>>regards,
>>
>>Mark.
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Phil Pritchard [mailto:phil at pritchard.asn.au] 
>>Sent: Saturday, 26 November 2005 5:11 PM
>>To: Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
>>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] configure intel modems.....
>>
>>can somebody help or point in the right direction.
>>where i might be able to find info re: setting up intel voice modems
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>as
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>>fxs ports..
>>
>>thanks in advance.....
>>
>>
>>Phil
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