asterisk users - Feb 2010 - AVM Fritz! mISDN with Kernel 2.6.32 - Any experiences?

Hi to all asterisk-users ;)

As some of you may know, Kernel 2.6.32 includes a module for the
infamous Fritz passive ISDN cards in conjunction with mISDN.
I just would like to know if anybody has tried to use a Fritz card as a
BRI adapter for Asterisk with the new module. If so, i would be grateful
for some hints or howtos.

I am willing to try this myself, but i am quite reluctant as i have
wasted weeks with Fritz cards over the last decade, most of the time
without any success. Any help is appreciated.

Regards

Daniel Leese

Hi!
> As some of you may know, Kernel 2.6.32 includes a module for the
> infamous Fritz passive ISDN cards in conjunction with mISDN.
Haven't tried/seen that, but mISDN ... I avoid it if I can.
> I am willing to try this myself, but i am quite reluctant as i have
> wasted weeks with Fritz cards over the last decade, most of the time
> without any success. Any help is appreciated.
I have excellent success with the tiny "fcpci" and chan_capi, which is
also working great with capi4hylafax. See net-dialup/fcpci-0.1-r1 in 
gentoo (should not be difficult to use this on other distros, but I have 
never done so). Do not confuse this with the "fritzcapi"!

See: http://opensuse.foehr-it.de/ (initially for ... SUSE :->)
Maintainer appears to be: Stefan Briesenick <sbriesen at gentoo.org>

http://www.chan-capi.org/
(Armin Schindler is occasionally active on this list here)

HTH, Philipp

P.S.: I am moving away from PCI cards towards external gateways, because 
those are nothing to worry about when you put a new kernel into place. I 
am tired of that dance.