Hello I'm using an older PC from 2000 that we have lying around at the office to learn about Asterisk using Pound Key 1.0.1 (http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/asterisk/). It's using an AMD Duron 600MHz, a Gigabyte GA-7ZX motherboard, and two FXO Astralis X101P clones that I bought through eBay. Here are the three issues I have. Sorry, forgot the floppy with dmesg, lspci, and /var/log/asterisk/messages at the office :-( 1. it seems like FXO card #1 shares its IRQ with the PCI Ethernet card (with no error message), while card #2 uses its own IRQ but still can't be initialized properly (DAA with error -5) : I didn't find any way in the BIOS to assign an IRQ to a PCI card. Can you confirm that this card is way too old, and I should find a more recent PC with a more decent motherboard? 2. how should I write the configuration files to handle two FXO cards? Here's what I did, but I doubt it's kosher: ------------ /etc/zaptel.conf -------------- fxsks=1 fxsks=2 loadzone=fr defaultzone=fr ---------------- /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf ----------- [trunkgroups] [channels] usecallerid=yes hidecallerid=no callwaiting=no threewaycalling=yes transfer=yes echocancel=yes echotraining=yes context=incoming signalling=fxs_ks channel => 1 channel => 2 -------------------- /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf ---------------------- [incoming] exten => s,1,Answer( ) exten => s,2,Echo( ) 3. How can I tell Grub to use "pci=noapci" to see if that solves the issue with the FXO cards? Thank you Fred. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/358 - Release Date: 07/06/2006