[asterisk-users] DAHDI loading issue on Asterisk

[Sean Darcy]

On 04/16/2014 05:42 PM, Josh Metzger wrote:
> Try starting Asterisk with the -f option.  It will NOT fork into the
> background so you will see all messages on startup (including any that
> might not end up in the log file).  Search for DAHDI errors which will
> likely be there.
>
> Also, if you configure everything and start DAHDI but don't start
> Asterisk and run "dahdi_tool", is it showing you the circuits in an "OK"
> state?
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:25 PM, <steve at vanwambeck.net
> <mailto:steve at vanwambeck.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>     I have a fresh install of Asterisk 11.8.1 and am putting a Digium
>     TE435 4 T1 card in it for ISDN PRI. I can get the card to be
>     recognised by the DAHDI utilities but when I put in the file
>     "chan_dahdi.conf" with either the generated file from samples with
>     what seem to be appropriate settings or with the basic config as
>     outlined on the DAHDI install guide the Asterisk "core show help"
>     display is missing all the "dahdi" and "pri" commands.
>
>     If I remove the "chan_dahdi.conf" file and restart Asterisk the
>     commands magically reappear. I have gone back and checked on
>     menuselect but don't see anything obvious that I have missed to
>     support this function.
>
>     I have run out of ideas on how to integrate this. The documentation
>     makes it sound pretty simple but I have been fighting this for a
>     week now with no success.__ __
>     I am not seeing any parse errors from the module reload command:
>
>     asteriskpbx*CLI> module reload chan_dahdi.so <http://chan_dahdi.so>
>     asteriskpbx*CLI>
>
>     The truncated output from "core show help" is:
>
>     core stop when convenient Shut down Asterisk at empty call volume
>     core waitfullybooted Wait for Asterisk to be fully booted
>     data get Data API get
>     data show providers Show data providers
>     ... ....
>     resencestate change Change a custom presence state
>     presencestate list List currently know custom presence states
>     realtime destroy Delete a row from a RealTime database
>     realtime load Used to print out RealTime variables.
>
>     I can restart the asteriskpbx process without the "chan_dahdi.conf"
>     file and all the dahdi and pri commands are present. The
>     "chan_dahdi.conf" file I am loading is a basic file from the DAHDI
>     instructions. Even the sample file will not correctly load up either.
>
>     asteriskpbx at asteriskpbx:/etc/asterisk$ cat chan_dahdi.conf
>     [trunkgroups]
>
>     [channels]
>     usecallerid = yes
>     hidecallerid = no
>     callwaiting = yes
>     usecallingpres = yes
>     callwaitingcallerid = yes
>     threewaycalling = yes
>     transfer = yes
>     canpark = yes
>     cancallforward = yes
>     callreturn = yes
>     echocancel = yes
>     echocancelwhenbridged = yes
>     relaxdtmf = yes
>     rxgain = 0.0
>     txgain = 0.0
>     group = 1
>     callgroup = 1
>     pickupgroup = 1
>     immediate = no
>     switchtype = 5ess
>     signalling = pri_cpe
>     context = incoming
>     echocancel = yes
>     channel = 1-23
>     ____
>     Any suggestions on what I am missing would be greatly appreciated.
>     Steve VanWambeck____
>

Do you have the kernel module loaded?

lsmod | grep dahdi

sean