[asterisk-users] Problem installing B410P BRI card for asterisk

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 12/30/2011 02:44 AM, Marco Mooijekind wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I know this is more a Digium hardware than an Asterisk issue. Already
> posted a question at Digium, however also like to see whether anyone in
> the Asterisk community has encountered the following situation:
>
> I installed a Digium B410P BRI PCI card on my new asterisk server,
> following the steps specified in the manual. I can see the PCI card is
> available using the lspci command:
>
> ...
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit
> Network Connection [8086:10d3]
> 05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit
> Network Connection [8086:10d3]
> 08:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ASPEED Technology, Inc. AST1150 PCI-to-PCI
> Bridge [1a03:1150] (rev 02)
> 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED
> Graphics Family [1a03:2000] (rev 10)
> 0a:01.0 ISDN controller [0204]: Digium, Inc. Wildcard B410 quad-BRI card
> [d161:b410] (rev 01)
> ...
>
> I specified the following in my system.conf in /etc/dahdi:
>
> loadzone = nl
> defaultzone = nl
> span = 1,1,0,ccs,ami
> bchan = 1,2
> hardhdlc = 3
>
> I loaded the driver using "sudo modprobe wcb4xxp."
> Next I ran "dahdi_cfg -vv" which returns:
>
> "DAHDI Tools Version - 2.5.0.2
>
> DAHDI Version: 2.5.0.2
> Echo Canceller(s): HWEC
> Configuration
> ======================
>
> SPAN 1: CCS/ AMI Build-out: 0 db (CSU)/0-133 feet (DSX-1)
>
> Channel map:
>
> Channel 01: Clear channel (Default) (Echo Canceler: none) (Slaves: 01)
> Channel 02: Clear channel (Default) (Echo Canceler: none) (Slaves: 02)
> Channel 03: Hardware assisted D-channel (Default) (Echo Canceler: none)
> (Slaves: 03)
>
> 3 channels to configure.
>
> DAHDI_SPANCONFIG failed on span 1: No such device or address (6)"
>
> I'm in doubt about the "DAHDI_SPANCONFIG failed on span 1: No such
> device or address (6)".
> Next, if i execute sudo dmesg as specified by the manual it returns a
> huge trace:
> ....
> ....
> [  376.082907] Wrote 0x0 to register 0x1ab but got back 0x4
> [  376.594754] Wrote 0x0 to register 0x1ab but got back 0x4
> [  377.106605] Wrote 0x0 to register 0x1ab but got back 0x4
> [  377.618423] Wrote 0x0 to register 0x1ab but got back 0x4
> [  378.130266] Wrote 0x0 to register 0x1ab but got back 0x4
> [  378.642088] Wrote 0x0 to register 0x1ab but got back 0x4
> [ 1202.812870] show_signal_msg: 21 callbacks suppressed
> [ 1202.812876] dahdi_tool[1277]: segfault at 3fc378fa0 ip
> 00000000004021ac sp 00007fff131dd930 error 4 in dahdi_tool[400000+3000]
>
> And a lot of "Wrote 0x0 to register 0x1ab but got back 0x4" statements.
>
> If i run dahdi_tools it fails with a segmentation fault.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated!

Either your B410P card is misbehaving (i.e. broken), or there is some 
sort of PCI compatibility issue between it and the system you have it 
installed in. This is a hardware issue, and should be pursed with Digium 
Support.

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Kevin P. Fleming
Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies
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