asterisk users - Oct 2008 - ISDN - BRI

Subsequent to some previous E-Mails, I've been trying to dig into the ISDN -
BRI situation a bit more.  I have determined that I have a HFC card with Winbond
chip, but I'm not sure what combination of drivers is best or usable.

zaphfc is out because it only supports the cologne chip.

misdn is a possibility.  I haven't determined if it supports the card
natively, or needs a card specific driver under it.

capi is a possibility, but again, I don't know what driver, if any needs to
be under it.

capi can support misdn under it, but I don't know if this is an advantage or
not, and again whether a card driver needs to be under misdn

libpri 1.4.4 is supposed to work, provided you unpatch the bad patch in the
source and compile it--again, I'm not sure what driver, if any needs to be
under it.

F9 detected the card and loaded some sort of driver support for it, but I
don't know if that covers the lower levels appropriately.

Can anyone provide more specific information or suggest which of these
approaches is most likely to work, most likely to be stable, or supported for
the future, or support the most features?  It would appear there are at least
four possible ways that might work, but I can't determine which is best.

Thanks,
Wilton
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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:44:40PM -0600, Wilton Helm
wrote:
> Subsequent to some previous E-Mails, I've been trying to dig into the
ISDN - BRI situation a bit more.  I have determined that I have a HFC card with
Winbond chip, but I'm not sure what combination of drivers is best or
usable.
> 
> zaphfc is out because it only supports the cologne chip.
The HFC chip is "the cologne chip".

The HFC-S chip is used in various common single-port ISDN cards.
> 
> misdn is a possibility.  I haven't determined if it supports the card
natively, or needs a card specific driver under it.
> 
> capi is a possibility, but again, I don't know what driver, if any
needs to be under it.
> 
> capi can support misdn under it, but I don't know if this is an
advantage or not, and again whether a card driver needs to be under misdn
> 
> libpri 1.4.4 is supposed to work, provided you unpatch the bad patch in the
source and compile it--again, I'm not sure what driver, if any needs to be
under it.
This is if you have zaphfc.
> 
> F9 detected the card and loaded some sort of driver support for it, but I
don't know if that covers the lower levels appropriately.
> 
> Can anyone provide more specific information or suggest which of these
approaches is most likely to work, most likely to be stable, or supported for
the future, or support the most features?  It would appear there are at least
four possible ways that might work, but I can't determine which is best.
> 
> Thanks,
> Wilton
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