asterisk users - Mar 2005 - Eicon DIVA PCI ISDN cards (not server) work with asterisk!

I just wanted to let you know that it's possible to use Eicon DIVA PCI 
2.01 ISDN cards (not "server" divas) with asterisk.

First thing to do is to load the module. If you have two of these cards, 
you should do it like that:

modprobe -v hisax protocol=2,2 type=11,11


And now you can have up to 4 incoming calls with two cards (try calling 
yourself and see if anything gets into your syslog - you should have 
"ignored" calls even if asterisk isn't running).


Then configure your asterisk to use i4l (don't use chan_capi) - do it in 
modem.conf:
(...)
driver=i4l
(...)
msn=your_msn_number

and that's it (you still need to configure your ISDN devices to allow 
incoming calls, for example, using conf-isdn-account - don't forget to 
set SECURE="off" etc. ISDN settings).


Tomek

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 17:18 +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski
wrote:
> I just wanted to let you know that it's possible to use Eicon DIVA PCI 
> 2.01 ISDN cards (not "server" divas) with asterisk.
Last time I tried - there were a few problems...

1 - Outbound DTMF - never made it... ie You can not interact with
someone else's IVR (DTMF controlled systems)

2 - Inbound DTMF - Certain voices would be interpreted as DTMF - which
is fine until they sounded like a '#' - and got transfered.... (some
strange reason - my wife's voice - especially when she got angry)

I believe that there was some sort of patch for (2) but never heard of a
fix for (1)....

Has this changed at all???
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