asterisk users - Mar 2004 - Fedora w/o capi isdn - any other recomended distribution?

Being a newbie to linux and asterisk I try for two months already to setup
the asterisk.
I have prepared a test setup: Fedora with asterisk and AVM PCI ISDN card and
a two workstations where any softphone should be running.
I did not manage to get X-lite working and I do not know why. But with
SJphone I can establish the connection. However I have always to put the
whole sip adress like xxx@192.168.1.1. I can not dial only xxx although it
is properly defined in the sip.conf.

But now I tried to get AVM ISDN card working. Additionally I have installed
chan_capi. But the module can not be loaded.
Googling I have found few pages (unfortunately only in dutch and german)
suggesting removing Fedora's isdn packages and installing capi4k-utils.
I did it, but to install capi4k-utils I have to reinstall removed isdn
packages back. And it's still not working.

Where is the problem with Fedora and their version of the isdn/capi?
I have seen statements on Fedora's bugzilla, that they are not going to
support capi/isdn in their distribution. Can somebody please recommend me
any other reliable linux distribution or guide me to a page with simple
hints how to get asterisk working on Fedora with AVM card?

Janusz
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Sent: 13 March 2004 23:51
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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Fedora w/o capi isdn - any other recomended
distribution?

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But now I tried to get AVM ISDN card working. Additionally I have
installed chan_capi. But the module can not be loaded.
Googling I have found few pages (unfortunately only in dutch and german)
suggesting removing Fedora's isdn packages and installing capi4k-utils.
I did it, but to install capi4k-utils I have to reinstall removed isdn
packages back. And it's still not working.

<snip> Can somebody please recommend me any other reliable linux
distribution or guide me to a page with simple hints how to get asterisk
working on Fedora with AVM card?

Hi Janusz,

Try Suse 9, I got a test asterisk server up and running with ISDN
easily. The
AVM CAPI drivers come with Suse 9, so you don't have to mess with
downloading 
the drivers from www.avm.de

Thinking about fedora, did you modify /etc/capi.conf ?

Regards,
Nathan.