[asterisk-users] Dahdi and FreePBX

[Tim Nelson]

----- "Jeff LaCoursiere" <jeff at jeff.net> wrote:
> Perhaps this more belongs on the FreePBX list, but for the archives,
> this 
> is what I did to make it work:
> 
> chan_dahdi wants to read /etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.conf
> 
> FreePBX, at least how I installed from source, seems to think I am
> still 
> running Zaptel.  It created zapata_additional.conf when I added two
> ZAP 
> channels.  For some unknown reason it did NOT create zapata.conf,
> although 
> the sample was still in /etc/asterisk.
> 
> I blindly linked chan_dahdi.conf to zapata_additional.conf, but that 
> failed (and had I looked in /var/log/asterisk/full before posting
> earlier 
> I would have seen why), because zapata_additional.conf has no
> '[channels]' 
> context identifier, as it is really just meant to be included by 
> zapata.conf.
> 
> So the solution, barring trying to figure out why FreePBX is still
> using 
> Zaptel filenames, is to create a chan_dahdi.conf that looks like
> this:
> 
> [channels]
> language=en
> #include zapata_additional.conf
> 
> Or a simple soft link to zapata.conf, containing the above, would also
> 
> have worked.
> 
> Then a quick restart of asterisk and all was well.  No need for a 
> users.conf.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> j
> 


BTW, if you try to use "ZAP channel DIDs" or other routing mechanisms relying on the 'ZAP' channel identifier, you'll still have problems. What you need to do is  set ZAP2DAHDICOMPAT=true in your /etc/amportal.conf .

--Tim