On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:13:53PM -0500, Infra wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> We have been running a CVS HEAD version of asterisk from Mar 10, 2005
> on ix86 (PIII-600) Linux 2.4.27
Wow!
> with ixj (chan_phone) hardware. In a
> hope of getting better 'chan_skinny' support (to attempt using a Cisco
> 7920 IP phone) I built asterisk 1.2.40 on this box.
Why not start from something a bit more up-to-date (feature-wise)? 1.6.2
would be a good start.
> Initial tests
> verify that our previous dialplan is working (iax2 trunks, register
> sip phones, registering withour SER box, etc. all work but there is no
> dialtone on the ixj fxs port.
>
> Here is what I tried:
>
> (in each case asterisk invoked with '-vvv -C name_of_config_file)
>
> 1. temporary fresh install of 1.2.40 using sample configs; in dialplan
> (uncommented extension ext. 1265); in 'phone.conf' uncommented
> the following:
>
> [interfaces]
> mode=dialtone
> format=slinear
> echocancel=medium
> context=local
> txgain=100%
> rxgain=1.0
> device => /dev/phone0
>
> -- dialplan works, ext. 1265 rings, has two-way audio, call progress
> tones heard, sends dtmf, can dial out, but has no dialtone.
>
> 2. temporary 'update' (bininstall) install of 1.2.40 overlaying existing
> CVS HEAD installation:
>
> -- existing dialplan works, Phone/phone0 works as in (1) above except
> for no dialtone.
>
> 3. temporary 'udpate' (bininstall) install of 1.2.40 as in (2) above but
> without new 1.2.40 version of chan_phone.so (instead using our old
> version of chan_phone.so):
>
> -- existing dialplan works, Phone/phone0 works except for no dialtone.
>
> 4. test of new chan_phone.so from 1.2.40 replacing the one in our existing
> working installation:
>
> -- asterisk fails to start:
> Aug 13 14:21:05 WARNING[2625]:
> /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/chan_phone.so: undefined
> symbol: ast_register_file_version
chan_phone.so was not built with Asterisk 1.2.40 ?
>
> In all of the above cases where asterisk starts and runs, there are no
> error messages involving 'chan_phone', nor any error messages at all
> during placement of calls or answering of calls on Phone/phone0.
>
> It seems reasonable to suggest that changes in chan_phone.c are _not_
> responsible for the lack of dialtone.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. can someone confirm what releases are known to work with chan_phone.so
> (in dialtone mode)?
>
> 2. can someone confirm if there is a release that works with chan_phone.so
> in dialtone mode that also has a working skinny implementation that
> will work with the Cisco 7920 IP phone?
>
> 3. in the absence of any known working configurations, would anyone be
> willing to kibitz about backporting more recent skinny support into our
> CVS HEAD working version of asterisk?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
> N.B. The list archives have a few unanswered posts from other users with
> no dialtone on ixj hardware over the years; I understand that it is
> probably of little interest to Digium to support this hardware, but 1.2
> was advertised to do so.
I suspect chan_phone does not have many users (to say the least). But if
it does not work as before, it's a regression, that should be fixed.
Please repoert it.
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