Second on Sangoma, don't forget that their hardware has lifetime warranties, but the OP already stated his budget was too tight.
Thanks, Steve Totaro On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Bruce Nik <brucev...@gmail.com> wrote: > My experience with Sangoma cards has been amazing. They always provide > support to not only Asterisk based systems but also to others. They are just > amazing and as their slogan says, "because it must work" it just does > without failiure. I never used a Digium card, but I never seen any other > company with so much free support available. > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Greg Woods <g...@gregandeva.net> wrote: > >> I am having to abandon asterisk after having used it for 2.5 years due >> to this problem. Every couple of days (sometimes more often, sometimes >> less), the machine will lock up because the TDM board or the Dahdi >> driver goes south. /var/log/messages starts filling up with repeated >> messages: >> >> kernel: TDM PCI Master abort >> >> The card I have is: >> >> *CLI> dahdi show status >> Description Alarms IRQ bpviol >> CRC4 >> Wildcard TDM400P REV I Board 5 OK 0 0 >> 0 >> >> >> I asked about this once before and I am asking again in desperation, as >> I have had to shut off my asterisk server, take all the VOIP phones out >> of service, and go back to the bad old days of a single cordless phone >> base with a couple of handsets and a crappy old WalMart answering >> machine. This sucks. >> >> Last time I asked, the most helpful answer I got was privately, saying >> that either my card is bad, or I might need a different motherboard (but >> there is no way I know of to know which motherboards would work and >> which would not; the last thing I would want is to go through the >> expense and major hassle of swapping motherboards only to find out that >> the problem is not fixed). >> >> The only decent diagnostic I have is that if I catch it soon enough, >> before the system totally locks up, then stopping asterisk, restarting >> dahdi, and starting asterisk gets things working again (until the next >> incident). Also, I can go into asterisk -r and do "dahdi show status" >> and the card doesn't have any alarms; the output is the same as above, >> even as the PCI Master abort messages are spewing into the syslog. >> >> If my Wildcard TDM board is bad, is there anything I can do about it, or >> am I just S.O.L. after this much time? The blasted card costs as much as >> a new machine; either way I can't afford it right now. I don't want to >> abandon asterisk as it has so many nice features, but I am running low >> on alternatives at the moment. >> >> --Greg >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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