asterisk users - Nov 2005 - BRI cards, HFC, and bristuff - a general question to clear up my understanding.

Hi Folks,

After doing extensive reading it seems that I am more confused than when
I started out.

I have an Asustek ISDNLink (P-IN100-ST-D) BRI card. I know that it has a
Winbond W6692 chipset, but there is much confusion in my head regarding
whether to use bristuff (which seems to work with the HFC chipset - is
this Winbond an HFC chipset or not?), mISDN, which from my reading is
still somewhat unstable, ISDN4linux which seems to be feature poor or
capi-channel (which seems to not be supported on this card, so that's
easy!).

I have, in the past, got this card working with the hisax driver to do
dial-up to the ISP, but this driver seems to have been deprecated. I was
wondering whether those guru's out there that have had success with
their BRI cards could step forward.

I am loathe to buy a AVM Fritz card as they are VERY expensive here and
if I can get this card working - hey presto, since these thingies are
very cheap.

Thanks in advance,

Hamish

Get a Duxbury PCI ISDN card that has the HFC-S chipset, its type approved
TE2003/013 and there is enough support on the wiki at
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-pagehistory.php?page=Asterisk+zaphfc+install&diff=24

Cant find much reference to winbond+asterisk

Cost is also ?R200 each.

Rob

On 11/8/05, Hamish Whittal <hamish@qedux.co.za>
wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> After doing extensive reading it seems that I am more confused than when
> I started out.
>
> I have an Asustek ISDNLink (P-IN100-ST-D) BRI card. I know that it has a
> Winbond W6692 chipset, but there is much confusion in my head regarding
> whether to use bristuff (which seems to work with the HFC chipset - is
> this Winbond an HFC chipset or not?), mISDN, which from my reading is
> still somewhat unstable, ISDN4linux which seems to be feature poor or
> capi-channel (which seems to not be supported on this card, so that's
> easy!).
>
> I have, in the past, got this card working with the hisax driver to do
> dial-up to the ISP, but this driver seems to have been deprecated. I was
> wondering whether those guru's out there that have had success with
> their BRI cards could step forward.
>
> I am loathe to buy a AVM Fritz card as they are VERY expensive here and
> if I can get this card working - hey presto, since these thingies are
> very cheap.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Hamish
>
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Hamish Whittal wrote:
> I have an Asustek ISDNLink (P-IN100-ST-D) BRI card. 
[..]

This is not a card compatible with the bristuff.

I don't know about the availability of the hfc-cards in your part of the 
world, but they are very inexpensive in Germany (around 30 EUR ~ 30 USD)
> I am loathe to buy a AVM Fritz card as they are VERY expensive here and
> if I can get this card working - hey presto, since these thingies are
> very cheap.
If you are serious about asterisk, you don't want to try the modem route 
with your card. Sound will be bad.
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