[asterisk-users] * 1.4 -> 1.6, zaptel -> dahdi

[Singer X.J. Wang]

Can I make a non related suggestions?

Ditch Fedora and use CentOS.

Greg Woods wrote:
> This has got to be an FAQ, so if someone can point me to where it is
> answered, I would be greatly appreciated. The documentation for all this
> stuff is scattered and (to me at least) either very sketchy or hard to
> find.
>
> What I want is a guide for how to convert from 1.4 with zaptel to 1.6
> with dahdi. All the recent kernel vulnerabilities are forcing me to
> upgrade my home server from no-longer-supported Fedora 8 up to Fedora
> 11, and that means upgrading asterisk as well.
>
> It appears that, although the dahdi-tools package is part of Fedora 11,
> the kernel modules are not. I couldn't get the dahdi tools such as
> dahdi_scan to work at all until I installed the dahdi-kmdl package from
> ATrpms. Does that match others' experiences?
>
> This also means a translation from extensions.conf to AEL. I tried using
> the tool whose name I forget that produces an ael file from an old
> extensions.conf file, but I get tons of errors when I try to load the
> resulting file. In particular, there are comments about Macros but no
> detailed documentation as to how to translate something like "GoTo(s|
> 3)". I try using "goto s|3" and get an error that there is no label "s"
> in the current context. Is there something else I should be doing to
> accomplish this, or do I really have to create an explicit label for
> every extension that is the current target of a Goto() call?
>
> Thanks for any advice. A line-by-line translation of my dialplan looks
> to be a very tedious and time-consuming task with a steep learning
> curve. There has got to be a better way, I know I'm not the first to
> have to do this.
>
> --Greg
>
>
>
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