"Dean Billing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kim & the list -
There must be a convergence in the space time continuum (sp?).
I have been commissioned by a client to build a FreeBSD base asterisk
server.
I have built dozens of servers for this client, but the obsolesence of a
motherboard I had been using required using a brand new motherboard
whose onboard RAID controller would only be recognized by FreeBSD 6.0.
So I loaded FreeBSD, upgraded it to STABLE, loaded zaptel and asterisk
from PORTS and installed a DigitNetworks X100P FXO and tried to get
zaptel to recognize it. The system locks up when it tries to perform
the /sbin/kldload of wcfxo.ko in the zaptel.sh startup script.
Finding this install procedure today is uncanny ... I am trying it as we
speak.
My question is, since I have installed zaptel and asterisk from PORTS,
should I deinstall them before actually building zaptel and asterisk
from the svn source?
Yes - otherwise you will end up with a fearfull mess of conflicting
versions.
I would however strongly recommend that if this server is intended for
production use you client goes for a Linux based server. Although I am a
card carrying FreeBSD bigot myself I'm afraid that I don't really believe
that Asterisk on FreeBSD is mature enough for production use - and given
that an Asterisk server should really be a standalone device (ie not running
lots of other applications/services) it's not so great a problem for it to
be a lone Linux box.
Now - let's get back to this thread and _get_ the FreeBSD Asterisk port
ready for primetime... :-)
--
Thomas Sandford
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