asterisk users - Feb 2005 - Initializing two ISDN cards in isdn4linux

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Hello!

After LOTS of research on this list and internet in general I managed
to get
an old Teles PCI card working with Asterisk throught ISDN4Linux.
No echos, no delays, simply perfect -- electronic poetry ! :)
eheheheheh

I just didn't get it to work with CAPI and "chan_capi" but, since
isdn4linux
is doing such a good job, I'll kept it.

However, what I really wanted to do, was to connect TWO of those
cards (that
I already have and already tested one at a time) working with
Asterisk.
(that's because I have two independent BRI lines)

Asterisk isn't the problem.
The problem lies with the card initialization in Debian and
isdn4linux.
For the single card I was using with "isdntool" for initialization,
wich
works fine but has no support for two cards.

Can anyone tell me exactly how to initialize the ISDN system manually
???

It all starts with "modprobe -v hisax type=21,21" (loading hisax and
telling
it that we'll use two teles pci cards)
and then ? what else ???

Thanks in advance

Miguel Gon?alves

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On 12:20, Sat 12 Feb 05, JunkMail wrote:
> 
> It all starts with "modprobe -v hisax type=21,21" (loading hisax
and
> telling
> it that we'll use two teles pci cards)
> and then ? what else ???
> 
try adding protocol=2,2 (for euroisdn, replace with your
type)
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PROBLEM SOLVED !!!! (read the rest)
>> Weird. That's all I did to get my two Fritz! cards working.
>> Only did the modprobe.
Er... that's really not enough (in this case, at least).
Asterisk will only be happy with the initialization when you can see all
four channels listed in the "imon" utility (from the isdn4k-utils
package).
At that point you can fool around with /dev/ttyI0...3 in the minicom as
described in the
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+ISDN4Linux page and asterisk will be
happy.
Only modprobe alone won't do that !
>> Are you sure your * modem.conf is setup correctly ?
Yes, that's important. My modem.conf includes this :
group=1
msn=41
incomingmsn=41,2*******4
device => /dev/ttyI0
device => /dev/ttyI1
device => /dev/ttyI2
device => /dev/ttyI3
>> I remember I installed isdnutils package, but only to be
>> able to see calls in /var/log/isdn/isdnlog
>> Everytime I started the isdnutils it complained about no
>> configs. So my guess is you dont need to fiddle around with
>> isdntool.
I still don't know HOW "isdntool" does the initialization of the
ISDN
system, however, after fiddling some more with "isdntool" I found out
that
it let's me write my own modprobe command.
That's how I solved the problem :
--> Ran "isdntool"
--> Selected "ISDN-Settings : View / Edit"
--> Selected "Hardware"
--> Selected "Teles PCI"
--> But instead of accepting the default modprobe prompted, I wrote the
correct one.

After this, "isdntool" "did it's thing" and I started
Asterisk, who was now
answering calls on all four channels.
>> My experience is limited to pci devices tho, dont know if
>> you have ISA or pci.
Like I said -- two equal Teles PCI cards. One bought in 1996 and other
bought in 1998.
At a time I was about the throw out both of them; but now I'm tempted to buy
a used one from anyone who wants to sell.   :)

Thank you for the help !

Best Regards

Miguel Gon?alves

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 12:20 +0000, JunkMail wrote:
> For the single card I was using with "isdntool" for
initialization,
> wich
> works fine but has no support for two cards.
> 
> Can anyone tell me exactly how to initialize the ISDN system manually
> ???
> 
> It all starts with "modprobe -v hisax type=21,21" (loading hisax
and
> telling
> it that we'll use two teles pci cards)
> and then ? what else ???
Not sure if this will help you - I ponce played with a mixture of single
port cards... Can't remember where I got the 'id=' bits from..

# For one eicon PCI
#modprobe hisax type=11

# For two eicon cards
modprobe hisax  type=11,11   id=201%202

# For Asuscom ISA
# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
#modprobe hisax  type=12 irq=3 io=0x0100


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