asterisk users - Oct 2008 - DAHDI aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhh :((((

The information (or lack of it) on upgrading from zaptel to that 
@&*^QW%&^%!!!  dahdi is very frustrating.

I cannot find anything on how to uninstall zaptel, i found an earlier post 
to this list which suggested make uninstall and make remove in the zaptel 
directory which just generates errors and does nothing (on zaptel 12.1).

Then i install dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools and i want to start configuring 
it, so i am trying dahdi_genconf like the docs suggested which generates 
this really helpful error message :
/usr/sbin/dahdi_genconf: Cannot read '/etc/dahdi/genconf_parameters': No
such file or directory

Also the config files and everything are much more complicated 
for dahdi than they were for zaptel

There was some nice documentation and examples on how to get started with 
configuring certain devices with zaptel on the digium page, for my TDM11B 
they only mention zaptel.....

Did anyone even try this?

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Remco Barendse <asterisk at barendse.to>
wrote:
> The information (or lack of it) on upgrading from zaptel to that
> @&*^QW%&^%!!!  dahdi is very frustrating.
>
> I cannot find anything on how to uninstall zaptel, i found an earlier post
> to this list which suggested make uninstall and make remove in the zaptel
> directory which just generates errors and does nothing (on zaptel 12.1).
>
> Then i install dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools and i want to start configuring
> it, so i am trying dahdi_genconf like the docs suggested which generates
> this really helpful error message :
> /usr/sbin/dahdi_genconf: Cannot read
'/etc/dahdi/genconf_parameters': No
> such file or directory
>
> Also the config files and everything are much more complicated
> for dahdi than they were for zaptel
>
> There was some nice documentation and examples on how to get started with
> configuring certain devices with zaptel on the digium page, for my TDM11B
> they only mention zaptel.....
>
> Did anyone even try this?
>
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I don't have answers just a question.

DAHDI is alpha or beta code, what motivates you to upgrade so badly that you
are frustrating yourself so much?

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On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Remco Barendse <asterisk at barendse.to>
wrote:
> The information (or lack of it) on upgrading from zaptel to that
> @&*^QW%&^%!!!  dahdi is very frustrating.
>
> I cannot find anything on how to uninstall zaptel, i found an earlier post
> to this list which suggested make uninstall and make remove in the zaptel
> directory which just generates errors and does nothing (on zaptel 12.1).
What types of errors do you encounter running 'make uninstall'?
You'll need to make sure both asterisk and zaptel are shutdown before
running make install:

 # service asterisk stop
 # service zaptel stop
> Then i install dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools and i want to start configuring
> it, so i am trying dahdi_genconf like the docs suggested which generates
> this really helpful error message :
> /usr/sbin/dahdi_genconf: Cannot read
'/etc/dahdi/genconf_parameters': No
> such file or directory
Unfortunately there was a bug in the initial 2.0.0 release.  This has
since been resolved in Subversion (see more details here
http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13615).

If you'd like, you can grab the latest from Subversion of both the
DAHDI Linux an DAHDI Tools packages, using the following commands:

 $ svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/linux/trunk dahdi-linux
 $ svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/tools/trunk dahdi-tools
> Also the config files and everything are much more complicated
> for dahdi than they were for zaptel
As far as I am aware, the format of the configuration files
(/etc/dahdi/system.conf and /etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.conf) are
basically the same as their predecessors, /etc/zaptel.conf and
/etc/asterisk/zapata.conf.  Feel free to post here with any questions
and we'll try to help out.

Sean

Remco Barendse wrote:
> The information (or lack of it) on upgrading from zaptel to that 
> @&*^QW%&^%!!!  dahdi is very frustrating.
> 
> I cannot find anything on how to uninstall zaptel, i found an earlier post 
> to this list which suggested make uninstall and make remove in the zaptel 
> directory which just generates errors and does nothing (on zaptel 12.1).
> 
> Then i install dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools and i want to start configuring 
> it, so i am trying dahdi_genconf like the docs suggested which generates 
> this really helpful error message :
> /usr/sbin/dahdi_genconf: Cannot read
'/etc/dahdi/genconf_parameters': No
> such file or directory
> 
> Also the config files and everything are much more complicated 
> for dahdi than they were for zaptel
> 
> There was some nice documentation and examples on how to get started with 
> configuring certain devices with zaptel on the digium page, for my TDM11B 
> they only mention zaptel.....
> 
> Did anyone even try this?
> 
It'll work. But it's not easy. I didn't find dahdi_genconf helpful.

Post your /etc/dahdi/system.conf ( the analogue of zaptel.conf ) and 
/etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.conf ( analogue of zapata.conf ).

With some help, you'll fix this.

sean