asterisk users - Feb 2008 - Fritz! Card/CAPI Help.

Hi list, i'm keen to move to Asterisk 1.6, so really need to update my
system which is running Mandrake 9.2 although it has been solid for years,
fo Fedora 8.

I have a Fritz! card for ISDN BRI, I have installed the drivers/kernel
drivers from ATrpms
(http://dl.atrpms.net/all/fcpci-03.11.07-14.fc8.i386.rpm and
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/fcpci-kmdl-2.6.23.14-115.fc8PAE-03.11.07-14.fc8.i686.rpm)
and isdn4k-utils.

I 'modprobe capi' and 'modprobe fcpci' which appear to work
fine, as I have
no error messages and 'dmesg' shows:

capifs: Rev 1.1.2.3
capi20: Rev 1.1.2.7: started up with major 68 (middleware+capifs)

However when I execute 'capiinfo' I get:

capi not installed - No such device or address (6)

'lspci' shows:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 80)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev
74)
00:14.0 Network controller: AVM Audiovisuelles MKTG & Computer System GmbH
A1 ISDN [Fritz] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo
CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)

Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong?
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Quoting Razza <razza30 at gmail.com>:
> Hi list, i'm keen to move to Asterisk 1.6, so really need to update my
> system which is running Mandrake 9.2 although it has been solid for years,
> fo Fedora 8. I have a Fritz! card for ISDN BRI, ... I 'modprobe
capi' and
> 'modprobe fcpci' which appear to work fine, ...
Interesting. I still have several AVM Fritz!Cards, but I stopped using  
them after I upgraded my server because I could no longer get them to  
work. I used to compile the fcpci module for kernel 2.6.8, but it  
doesn't work with 2.6.18. AFAIK, AVM haven't bothered to produce any  
new Linux code for these cards since July 2005 (even though they still  
sell them):

    ftp://ftp.avm.de/cardware/fritzcrd.pci/linux/

Or, is newer fcpci code available from somewher else that will compile  
against later kernels? Your message seems to suggest this. Are you  
sure fcpci is loaded (lsmod)? I don't think the CAPI stuff will load  
without it.

Anyway, I've since switched to using Cologne cards instead. You have  
to compile some Zaptel modules for them. These cards are cheaper,  
easier to obtain and work just fine.

Cheers,

Jaap