asterisk users - Mar 2005 - TE110P experiance

I have noticed the following:

   - the PCI ID of the card seems to change over time which means that
loading the module does not always recognise the card, only way to reset
this is to power cycle the machine

   - you cannot unload the module once it is loaded, it hangs the
machine, which also means if you have automatic shutdown scripts for
restarting the machine then the machine will hang on reboot

One of the LEDs shows the status of the connection.
If it is off, then it is not active, i.e. zaptel drivers not loaded.
If red then bad connection i.e. it is not talked to the other end,
usually a wiring problem
If green then everything OK.
Could also be a yellow state but I haven't seen that.

Once you get it working, leave the thing up is my only advice.
It is a shame that it is not bug free, neither the hardware nor the
software so far.
I don't know what Digium want to do about the hardware.
I hope there is a firmware fix rather than having to mess with the
actual physical hardware.

>    - the PCI ID of the card seems to change over time which means that
> loading the module does not always recognise the card, only way to reset
> this is to power cycle the machine
I noticed this behaviour as well.
i thought it was my motherboard wrongly assigning irq values -
the symptoms i noticed were:

irq value set by me - machine starts, module loads, all functional
reboot
irq value reset to another /shared/ irq - machine starts, module fails
reboot
irq value set by me again -  machine starts, module fails
check irq - it has been reset to something else
irq value set by me - machine starts, module loads, all functional

unfortunately my bios doesn't allow manual assigning of irqs - i have to 
swap them arond based on the ones it gives me...
i ended up disabling my usb bus as i don't need it...

i can't find any consistency to it and am living in fear of the reboot..
very odd..