asterisk users - Jan 2005 - TDM400P + Asterisk + zaptel timer ?

Hello, I thought that my Digium TDM400P would be the right hardware to
support the zaptel timer, and put the following IAX.CONF entry to test,
(trunk=yes) in the example below

[VHAX]
type=peer
auth=md5
username=whoknows
jitterbuffer=yes
;trunk=yes
secret=terriblesecret
host=4.5.6.7
qualify=1200
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
allow=gsm
;allow=g711u
;allow=g711a

But, it didn't work. So I had to comment it out. When trunk=yes was set, the
following result happened, and literally the audio was very unstable.
Otherwise the system has been working great. I am using ax1*CLI> show
version
Asterisk CVS-HEAD-12/02/04-17:57:31 built by root@ax1 on a i686 running
Linux


Jan  5 13:40:53 WARNING[1928]: Unable to open pseudo channel for timing...
Sound may be choppy.
Jan  5 13:40:54 WARNING[1928]: Unable to open IAX timing interface: No such
file or directory
Jan  5 13:40:57 NOTICE[1928]: Request to schedule in the past?!?!
Jan  5 13:41:00 WARNING[1928]: Unable to support trunking on peer 'VHAX'
without zaptel timing
Jan  5 13:41:06 WARNING[1928]: Unable to specify channel 1: No such device
or address
Jan  5 13:41:06 ERROR[1928]: Unable to open channel 1: No such device or
address
Jan  5 13:41:06 ERROR[1928]: Unable to register channel '1'
Jan  5 13:41:06 WARNING[1928]: chan_zap.so: load_module failed, returning -1
Jan  5 13:41:06 WARNING[1928]: Loading module chan_zap.so failed!

However, in my /dev/zap directory from original installation: (Fedora Core
3)
[root@ax1 asterisk]#         ls -l /dev/zap
total 0
crw-------  1 root root 196,   1 Jan  5 15:36 1
crw-------  1 root root 196,   2 Jan  5 15:36 2
crw-------  1 root root 196,   3 Jan  5 15:36 3
crw-------  1 root root 196,   4 Jan  5 15:36 4
crw-------  1 root root 196, 254 Jan  5 15:36 channel
crw-------  1 root root 196,   0 Jan  5 15:36 ctl
crw-------  1 root root 196, 255 Jan  5 15:36 pseudo
crw-------  1 root root 196, 253 Jan  5 15:36 timer
[root@ax1 asterisk]#

so, I'm puzzled, what / where is the zaptel timer supposed to be defined ?
the TDM400P has FXO and FXS interfaces and is a Digium.

-samudra



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On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 19:52 +0600, Samudra E. Haque
wrote:
> Hello, I thought that my Digium TDM400P would be the right hardware to
> support the zaptel timer, and put the following IAX.CONF entry to test,
> (trunk=yes) in the example below
> 
[snip]
> But, it didn't work. So I had to comment it out. When trunk=yes was
set, the
> following result happened, and literally the audio was very unstable.
> Otherwise the system has been working great. I am using ax1*CLI> show
> version
> Asterisk CVS-HEAD-12/02/04-17:57:31 built by root@ax1 on a i686 running
> Linux
> 
> Jan  5 13:41:06 WARNING[1928]: chan_zap.so: load_module failed, returning
-1
> Jan  5 13:41:06 WARNING[1928]: Loading module chan_zap.so failed!
You should first solve this problem. If chan_zap.so can't load, then you
don't have a timing device.

Do this:
Get zaptel source/compile/install
in /usr/src/asterisk make clean;make install
then modprobe zaptel and modprobe wcfxs (or wctdm if using current CVS)
then ztcfg
If you get *NO* error messages, then continue, else report back to the
list your /etc/zaptel.conf and details of your TDM card modules, and the
errors
Start asterisk
If you can do a zap show channels and see your channels, then continue,
else report back to the list the output of ztcfg -vv, and
your /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf and the error messages when starting
asterisk.

If you have done all the above correctly, then it will probably work.
Remember that you need to enable trunk'ing at BOTH ends as well.

Hope this helps you...

Regards,
Adam
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