[asterisk-users] Issues with Xorcom astribanks when running Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) as a quemu/libvirt guest

[Andrew Latham]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Eric van der Vlist <vdv at dyomedea.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Xorcom astribanks get initialized straight on when using Ubuntu 11.10
> packages but I am having a hard time to get the same result running in a
> qemu/libvirt image.
>
> The first difficulty is that astribanks devices get different usb device
> ids during their initialisation process, requiring hot plug support.
>
> I have figured out how to solve this issue using the technique described
> in this post :
> http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/rotapken/2011/04/11/how-to-auto-hotplug-usb-devices-to-libvirt-vms/
>
> That doesn't seem to be enough and the initialisation fails with a
> status 1:
>
> Oct 28 18:58:19 asterisk-rg 'xpp_fxloader'[1006]: Trying to find what to
> do for product e4e4/1160/101, device /dev/bus/usb/001/004
> Oct 28 18:58:19 asterisk-rg 'xpp_fxloader'[1010]: Loading firmware
> '/usr/share/dahdi/USB_FW.hex' into '/dev/bus/usb/001/004'
> Oct 28 18:58:23 asterisk-rg 'xpp_fxloader'[1024]: Trying to find what to
> do for product e4e4/1161/101, device /dev/bus/usb/001/005
> Oct 28 18:58:34 asterisk-rg
> 'xpp_fxloader'[1035]: /usr/sbin/astribank_tool failed with status 1
>
> Seeing that Xorcom requires USB 2.0 and that the current versions of
> libvirt and qemu in Ubuntu 11.10 emulate USB 1.10 in guests, I have
> installed Boris Derzhavets' packages:
> https://launchpad.net/~bderzhavets/+archive/seabios163 and updated my
> host definition to emulate USB 2.0 but I still have the same issue.
>
> Have I missed something?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>

Try Xorcom's great support....  Tzafrir posted the solution to this a
few months ago, search the list for it.

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