asterisk users - Oct 2004 - Cannot start asterisk - CAPI issues

Hi List,

I have managed to compile asterisk but I can't start it. What I have 
done so far as asterisk config is concerned is cut and paste the sample 
config files from the ONLamp article on Asterisk.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/07/03/asterisk.html

When I start asterisk -vvvp I get quite a few messages, notably:

"chan_capi.c:2603 load_module: Unable to load config capi.conf"

and:

load_modules: Loading module chan_capi.so failed!

Now I *do* have some kind of ISDN card in the box which I have not 
worried about yet (Eicon Diva 2.01 S/T PCI according to lspci) and I 
understand that CAPI has something to do with ISDN, but I have no clue 
as why asterisk doesn't start...

Did I forget something when I compiled asterisk?
Any ideas?

Cheers,
Jean-Michel.

> "chan_capi.c:2603 load_module: Unable to load config capi.conf"
You need to create this file /etc/asterisk/capi.conf
with the following content :
[general]
nationalprefix=0
internationalprefix=00

[interfaces]

msn=50
incomingmsn=*
controller=1
softdtmf=0
accountcodecontext=incoming
;echosquelch=1
echocancel=no
;echotail=64
;callgroup=1
;deflect=12345678
devices=30

Adjust devices= with the number of B channels supported by your card. For
ISDN BRI, it's 2, for PRI, it's 30.
> Now I *do* have some kind of ISDN card in the box which I have not
> worried about yet (Eicon Diva 2.01 S/T PCI according to lspci) and I
> understand that CAPI has something to do with ISDN, but I have no clue
> as why asterisk doesn't start...
You need a kernel support for you card and you also need to load a firmware
for some cards.
If you have a message like "CAPI not installed!", check your kernel.

>
> In modules.conf put
>
> noload=>chan_capi.so
>
> and any other module that gets complained about.
Hurray! Asterisk now actually starts! I had to disable quite a few 
modules though:

 [skipping chan_capi.so]
 [skipping app_capiCD.so]
 [skipping app_capiHOLD.so]
 [skipping app_capiRETRIEVE.so]
 [skipping app_capiECT.so]
 [skipping app_capiMCID.so]
 [skipping app_capiNoES.so]
 [skipping rate_engine.so]

Funny I had to disable rate_engine.so though... here is the message I got:

 [rate_engine.so]Nov  1 16:18:48 WARNING[1076992544]: loader.c:299 
ast_load_resource: /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/rate_engine.so: undefined 
symbol: ast_pthread_create
Nov  1 16:18:48 WARNING[1076992544]: loader.c:480 load_modules: Loading 
module rate_engine.so failed!

Anyway thanks for the tips!

Cheers,
Jean-Michel.

On 05:20 AM 11/1/2004, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
 >Funny I had to disable rate_engine.so though... here is the message I got:
 >
 > [rate_engine.so]Nov  1 16:18:48 WARNING[1076992544]: loader.c:299
 >ast_load_resource: /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/rate_engine.so: undefined
 >symbol: ast_pthread_create
 >Nov  1 16:18:48 WARNING[1076992544]: loader.c:480 load_modules: Loading
 >module rate_engine.so failed!
 >

I had the same issue recently.  I was upgrading an asterisk install for 
some of the recent database features, and it broke rate_engine.  So I fell 
back to the last asterisk version that I knew worked with rate_engine.  CVS 
9-29-04 seems to work fine with rate_engine.

-Chris