Re: [Astlinux-users] TDM400 Quality

2009-01-23 Thread Martin Rogers
Thanks Iona, Gene and Darrick for responding to this thread.

The symptoms I have are noise and crackling whenever the other person
speaks, and occasional,random beeps.  Echo is not really a problem after
the first couple of seconds. However, it is not a nice experience. I had
a 2 hour conference call today and decide to plug in a POTS phone instead.

1) zttest result was :
-- Results after 29 passes ---

Best: 99.986 -- Worst: 99.977 -- Average: 99.983030, Difference: 99.983030

2) However I cannot stop the NIC sharing an interrupt with the TDM400. I
have tried disabling all the usual onboard devices (COM, parallel, USB)
but to no avail. I am using a Neoware E140 which has just one PCI slot.

I have tried using not-Auto IRQ allocation in the BIOS, without any
change to the IRQ allocation. I have tried to reserve the IRQ setting
where the two devices are sitting - all that happens is that they both
move to the next free one.  I have tried disabling the NIC in the BIOS,
rebooting and then enabling it again. Once again both devices end up on
the same IRQ. /proc/interrupts shows :

   CPU0
  0:2671645XT-PIC-XTtimer
  1:  2XT-PIC-XTi8042
  2:  0XT-PIC-XTcascade
  9:  0XT-PIC-XTacpi
 11:2639275XT-PIC-XTwctdm, eth0
 12:  3XT-PIC-XTi8042
 14: 117115XT-PIC-XTide0
NMI:  0
LOC:  0
ERR:  0
MIS:  0

3) Note that despite setting the opermode to UK it is NOT being picked
up by the system. In /mnt/kd/rc.conf I have the following line

MODOPTS="wctdm:opermode=UK"
..
..
and then a bit later
..
..
ZAPMODS="wctdm"

After rebooting, the /etc/rc.conf autogenerated file shows
MODOPTS="wctdm:opermode=UK"

However after a restart I find this :
/sys/module/wctdm/parameters/opermode ="FCC"

I reported this problem a few months back on an interim build in this
forum, but I am now using 0.6.2 and thought that this had been resolved.

This is all a bit of a mess. Any suggestions on how I can resolve this
appreciated.

Thanks
Mart



Darrick Hartman wrote:
> The easier but maybe more expensive solution is to use a Rhino card. 
> The new Digium cards do appear to be much better than the ones with the 
> Tiger Jet chipsets.
> 
> Darrick
> 
> Gene Cooper wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> I'm no expert, but here's my $.02 worth...  I have had good luck with 
>> Digium cards.  These days I usually buy the AEX800 w/ HW EC.
>>
>>> I have been using a TDM400 with 2 FXO cards for over a year but am
>>> disappointed in the quality.
>> First off, and don't discount this, make sure the card has its own IRQ. 
>>   This can be a PITA with cheaper mainboards too.  Try changing slots 
>> and disabling integrated features you may not need, like serial ports or 
>> parallel ports or audio hardware, etc.
>>
>> Use fxotune.  Here's a link:
>>
>> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+fxotune
>>
>> Here's another link that may help:
>>
>> http://www.mattgwatson.ca/2008/05/howto-tune-zaptel-dahdi-fxo-interfaces-on-asterisk-pbx/
>>
>> IHTH,
>>
>> G
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[Astlinux-users] Any experts w/ dnsmasq?

2009-01-23 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
I'm trying to get dnsmasq to always reply with option 81 (FQDN) instead 
of 12 (hostname) when answering queries.

Anyone know what config changes are necessary to make this happen?

Thanks,

-Philip


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Re: [Astlinux-users] MiniPCI PRI for 5501

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Keuter
>Hello all
>
>Does anyone have any recommendations for a MiniPCI PRI card compatible
>with Astlinux, to be fitted in a Soekris net5501 and connected to a UK
>BT ISDN30? Cost is an issue.
>
>Thanks
>
>Tom

Hi Tom,

as I know there are only BRI or analogue miniPCI cards on the market 
(Beronet, OpenVox).
You can try a E1/T1-PCI card in the 5501, maybe with a bigger case from

https://kd85.com/soekris.html

or you could use an external PRI voip gateway (E1/T1 to SIP) like the 
the SmartNode 4960 series from Patton

http://www.patton.com/products/pe_products.asp?category=354

or a Redfone fonebridge2 (but for that box you need special zaptel 
drivers and a config tool, which have to be compiled for Astlinux)

http://www.red-fone.com/Products/

Michael

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Re: [Astlinux-users] app_faxgateway.c

2009-01-23 Thread Justin Coffi
Perhaps you could check the asterisk mailing list. Since the problem 
probably isn't specific to AstLinux.

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[Astlinux-users] 0.6.3

2009-01-23 Thread Justin Coffi
What can we expect from 0.6.3? Can you give us some teasers for 0.7.0?

 - Justin

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