asterisk users - Dec 2004 - CAPI Newbie

Hi everyone,

	Hi, I am new to the ISDN world, today I received my new  NT box from
CS Telecom but unfortunately it doesn't work. I have installed all the
drivers and when I issue a "capiinfo" I get:

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Number of Controllers: 1
Controller 1:
Manufacturer: AVM GmbH
CAPI Version: 2.0
Manufacturer Version: 3.101-02(49.18)
Serial Number: 1000001
BChannels: 2
Global Options: 0x00000039
   internal controller supported
   DTMF supported
   Supplementary Services supported
   channel allocation supported (leased lines)
B1 protocols support: 0x4000011f
   64 kbit/s with HDLC framing
   64 kbit/s bit-transparent operation
   V.110 asynconous operation with start/stop byte framing
   V.110 synconous operation with HDLC framing
   T.30 modem for fax group 3
   Modem asyncronous operation with start/stop byte framing
B2 protocols support: 0x00000b1b
   ISO 7776 (X.75 SLP)
   Transparent
   LAPD with Q.921 for D channel X.25 (SAPI 16)
   T.30 for fax group 3
   ISO 7776 (X.75 SLP) with V.42bis compression
   V.120 asyncronous mode
   V.120 bit-transparent mode
B3 protocols support: 0x800000bf
   Transparent
   T.90NL, T.70NL, T.90
   ISO 8208 (X.25 DTE-DTE)
   X.25 DCE
   T.30 for fax group 3
   T.30 for fax group 3 with extensions
   Modem

  0100
  0200
  39000000
  1f010040
  1b0b0000
  bf000080
  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
  01000001 00020000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Supplementary services support: 0x000003ff
   Hold / Retrieve
   Terminal Portability
   ECT
   3PTY
   Call Forwarding
   Call Deflection
   MCID
   CCBS

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When I issue within * "capi info" I get:

Contr1: 2 B channels total, 2 B channels free.

But when I dial to the number nothing happens, when I dial using capi I get:


Dec  3 19:26:55 WARNING[2585]: chan_capi.c:653 capi_call: Destination
38126927 requres a real destination
    -- Couldn't call 38126927
    -- CAPI Hangingup

Finally I have a Fritz card, which I plugged into the NT S/To bus using a
plain Ethernet cable. Is there a way to know if the Fritz PCI card is
talking to the NT device?

Any help would be welcomed.

Thanks in advanced,
Humberto Aicardi

Hi There,

I got chan_capi working OK with a Fritz! PCI card, so I can make and 
receive ISDN calls into Asterisk. Great.

Besides the Fritz! card I have a few ISDN phones connected to the same ISDN 
S-bus, each answering to a different MSN.

<-- to telephone carrier  --------
<-- incoming ISDN LINE ->|NT-1 box| --- Sbus----\
                           --------              |
                                                 |
                                                 |
       ------------------------------------------/
      |
      |
      |
      x--------------x----- ISDN SBus ----x-----------------x
      |	             |                    |                 |
      |	             |                    |                 |
      |	             |                    |                 |
      |	             |                    |                 |
---------   --------------       --------------    --------------
| Fritz |   | ISDN PHONE |       | ISDN PHONE |    | ISDN PHONE |
| card  |   | MSN XXXXX2 |       | MSN XXXXX3 |    | MSN XXXXX4 |
| MSN X1|   --------------       --------------    --------------
---------
|| PCI ||
     |
  ASTERISK

NT-1 : ISDN network termination box installed by the phone company.

However whenever I dial using these ISDN phones ... Asterisk is bypassed, 
and the call gets routed only by the telephone switching system connected 
to the ISDN/NT box. What I would like to do is to use the ISDN phones 
connected to the same ISDN/Sbus as the Fritz! card to make (also) calls 
into Asterisk.

How can I call Asterisk with any of these ISDN phones, without making an 
outgoing (paid) call through the telephone switch ?

Should I need to install two Fritz! card, one connected to the ISDN/NT 
line, the other to the ISDN phones ? :-))

Thanks for any hint.

Ron