[asterisk-users] First go at a stock 1.8 install -- where's DAHDI?

[Ryan Wagoner]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
> On Sat, February 19, 2011 4:21 pm, Ryan Wagoner wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, all.  I've finally made the jump from 1.4 to 1.8.  I've installed
>>> everything (I think), my Sangoma card initializes right... but there's
>>> no "dahdi" command -- not from the base, nor as a subset of the "core"
>>> commands.  I've got my channels configured in my chan_dahdi.conf file.
>>> What am I missing, here?
>>>
>> What version of dahdi do you have installed? I would try using the
>> latest version 2.4.0. It is important to compile and install in the
>> correct order. I usually do dahdi, libpri, asterisk, and then wanpipe.
>
> I'm running the latest of everything, except my kernel -- I went with
> 2.6.32.27 as being a well-maintained long-term kernel.  (2.6.37 gave me
> grief -- too new, I guess.)  I'm running -- if it makes a difference -- on
> an Ubuntu 8.04-4 system.  I've re-installed everything, in the order you
> gave, to, alas, the exact same result: everything seems to initialize,
> install, etc., correctly, but no "dahdi" feature in Asterisk.  Is there a
> module I need to load?  Or... something?  I'd hate to have to revert to
> 1.4 after all this work.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken

If you have autoload=yes in modules.conf it should load automatically.
Have you checked log, usually /etc/asterisk/full to see if you are
getting any error messages relating to dahdi?

Ryan