[Astlinux-users] Problem booting astlinux 1725 Via Serial

2008-05-08 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi I have downloaded the Runnix.img.gz and the astlinux-trunk-1725-via-serial tar/gz kindly provided at http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux/ I have installed the runnix image onto a NeoWare CA22 thin client and this boots up OK. I have unzipped/untarred the astlinux file, and have copied its

[Astlinux-users] Problem booting astlinux 1725 Via Serial

2008-05-13 Thread Martin Rogers
Apologies for the unthreaded post, but I have not received any mail from the mailing list since my 'welcome to the mailing list' email. Can you capture the entire byte-stream (say, with script -c kermit) and attach it? Although this is a 'serial' image I am have access to the console

[Astlinux-users] Hard disk requirements

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Rogers
I am attempting to install Runnix/Astlinux on an embedded device with a solid state disk drive. Can someone please confirm what the minimum and typical disk capacities needed for this environment are. Thanks Mart - This

Re: [Astlinux-users] Hard disk requirements

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Rogers
Darrick thanks for the info. Mart Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: Martin Rogers wrote: I am attempting to install Runnix/Astlinux on an embedded device with a solid state disk drive. Can someone please confirm what the minimum and typical disk capacities needed for this environment

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problem booting astlinux 1725 Via Serial

2008-05-17 Thread Martin Rogers
From: Darrick Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 2008-05-13 14:40 Mart, Try one of the older images on my site. I'll be uploading a new image later today. We made some changes in the initrd which may be causing some of the problems you're seeing. Not sure why it's been so quiet around here lately.

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problem booting astlinux 1725 Via Serial

2008-05-17 Thread Martin Rogers
Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: Martin Rogers wrote: Hi Darrick I tried the 1625 VIA serial image and it gets further than the 1725 one. It seems to verify and start the bootstrap of the Astlinux/Linux image. However it then runs into USB initialisation and locks me out of the console. I

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problem booting astlinux 1725 Via Serial

2008-05-17 Thread Martin Rogers
John Novack wrote: Pardon the novice jumping in here, but why are you using the SERIAL image? This thin client has both a VGA and DVI interface, as well as PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors. Are you not using those for your console? I have installed AstLinux on the HP thin clients and

Re: [Astlinux-users] Skype vs Astlinux[Scanned]

2008-06-10 Thread Martin Rogers
I would just add two comments. One critical criteria for me on the Skype v SIP debate has been whether or not the user can always guarantee they will have access to a computer. I have found that for traveling employees Skype has its place. I agree that trying to run two systems side by side

[Astlinux-users] 0.6.1 upgrade - Unable , to create channel of type 'Zap' (cause 66 - Channel not implemented)

2008-10-02 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi I have just upgraded a Wyse Winterm box which was running an old Astlinux (Asterisk v1.2) to 0.6.1-via. The box is connected to two PSTN lines via a TDM400 card and has worked fine. I backed up all the config from my key disk and did a physdiskwrite of the new image onto the CF. I then

[Astlinux-users] Problems installing 0.6.1

2008-10-04 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi I have had a VIA build 1754 of astlinux running for a few months on a Neoware E140 without any problems. For clarity, this build requires runnix and this is all installed OK. Yesterday I tried to upgrade to the astlinux-0.6.1-via image (from Darrick's site). In order to upgrade I deleted the

Re: [Astlinux-users] 0.6.1 upgrade - Unable , to create channel of type 'Zap' (cause 66 - Channel not implemented)

2008-10-04 Thread Martin Rogers
is all up and running again. The bottom line is that it seems you need zaptel.conf entries for every module on the card regardless of whether or not you are using it. regards Mart Martin Rogers wrote: Hi I have just upgraded a Wyse Winterm box which was running an old Astlinux (Asterisk v1.2

[Astlinux-users] Asterisk 1.6

2008-10-08 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi can anyone tell me what the expected time frame is for 1.6 support for Astlinux. Thanks Mart - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with

[Astlinux-users] updating modprobe.conf

2008-10-09 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi I would like to update /etc/modprobe.conf to enable debugging of the wctdm card (I am suffering occasional disconnects when connected over the PSTN). I have remounted the disk as RO and added the line options wctdm debug=1 /etc/modprobe.conf and successfully saved the file. However after

Re: [Astlinux-users] updating modprobe.conf

2008-10-09 Thread Martin Rogers
options and modules with spaces. #MODOPTS=wctdm:opermode=UK Lonnie On 9 Oct 2008, at 13:41, Martin Rogers fromastlinux- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I would like to update /etc/modprobe.conf to enable debugging of the wctdm card (I am suffering occasional disconnects when connected over

Re: [Astlinux-users] updating modprobe.conf

2008-10-10 Thread Martin Rogers
thoughts please. Thanks Mart Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: /etc/modprobe.conf is not a symbolic link to /tmp/etc/modprobe.conf H, something may be wrong, the devs will have to answer this. Lonnie On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Martin Rogers wrote: Lonnie and Tom thank you for your

Re: [Astlinux-users] updating modprobe.conf

2008-10-10 Thread Martin Rogers
Apologies for the paste error that should have said However, after a restart : /sys/module/wctdm/parameters/opermode =FCC /sys/module/wctdm/parameters/debug =0 Thanks Mart Martin Rogers wrote: Hi Either I am missing something fundamental or there is a startup problem. I am using

[Astlinux-users] 0.6.1 MODOPTS ignored ?

2008-10-13 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi This is a followup to a recent thread on modprobe which did not conclude in any resolution. It appears that setting MODOPTS in /mnt/kd/rc.conf are ignored. I am using the astlinux-0.6.1-via.img.gz image. I have set the following line in the /mnt/kd/rc.conf to set the opermode to UK and to

Re: [Astlinux-users] Runnix obsolete?

2008-10-14 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi Mark my understanding of this is that it is only obsolete in that you don't need to go through the pain of installing Runnix as separate step. You would normally install a whole image which includes both Runnix + Astlinux. After that, you could if you wished, just upload upgrades of .run

Re: [Astlinux-users] 0.6.1 MODOPTS ignored ?

2008-10-15 Thread Martin Rogers
Darrick Hartman wrote: Martin Rogers wrote: Darrick thanks for the reply. I tried editing /etc/modprobe.conf originally (setting the filesystem to RW etc) but the changes do not make it past a reboot. I also tried storing one on the keydisk in case this could be used to replace the etc

[Astlinux-users] How to use keydisk with UnionFS

2008-10-17 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi I have been using various versions of Astlinux using genkd and a USB flash disk with a good deal of success. I would like to resolve an issue whereby I am unable to update modprobe.conf (in turn because MODOPTS settings do not work). I have received advice from Darrick that I need to

[Astlinux-users] genkd/genunion

2008-11-05 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi I have a recent Astlinux system which uses a USB stick and genkd. When I want to modify the configuration I can modify the files on the keydisk and everything is OK. However I now need to change the root password. I understand that I need to use genuinon for this, and have a second IDE CF

Re: [Astlinux-users] genkd/genunion

2008-11-07 Thread Martin Rogers
. However, if you want to see exactly what is on the CF card unionfs partition, then you can go to /oldroot/asturw and you will find it. Hope this helps Daivd On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Martin Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi any takers for this question please

Re: [Astlinux-users] genkd/genunion

2008-11-07 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi any takers for this question please. Is this something which no one else has done, or is it just a plain stupid thing to ask? Thanks Mart Martin Rogers wrote: Hi I have a recent Astlinux system which uses a USB stick and genkd. When I want to modify the configuration I can modify

Re: [Astlinux-users] genkd/genunion

2008-11-12 Thread Martin Rogers
. If you are new to Astlinux, you will want to say yes. If you have an existing keydisk answer NO then run movekd. Darrick Martin Rogers wrote: Hi any takers for this question please. Is this something which no one else has done, or is it just a plain stupid thing to ask? Thanks Mart

Re: [Astlinux-users] Securing Astlinux 0.6.1

2008-11-16 Thread Martin Rogers
If you are using SIP you should also be paranoid and set allowguest=no, as this defaults to yes. Mart Philip Prindeville wrote: You can also use a shared secret for authentication with an MD5 digest exchange. That's reasonably secure. -Philip Darrick Hartman wrote: David, You

Re: [Astlinux-users] Securing Astlinux 0.6.1

2008-11-19 Thread Martin Rogers
of QoS, not encryption latency. -Philip Martin Rogers wrote: Darrick, interesting point about the VPN. I have to have three classes of port opened up for my AstLinux to work on the internet. A VPN solution would certainly simplify things in this respect. However, in reality, how

Re: [Astlinux-users] Securing Astlinux 0.6.1

2008-11-22 Thread Martin Rogers
and 3 PCs on remote site, all working over OpenVPN. So far it works flawlessly, users are not even aware they are not using traditional telephony (admittedly the phone traffic is pretty low, rarely more that two simultaneous calls). Niksa Baldun Martin Rogers wrote: Darrick

Re: [Astlinux-users] install tutorial for astlinux using windows and physdiskwrite???

2008-11-26 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi Jose I think the Using Windows to Prepare the CF section of this page still applies: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/AstLinux+Users+Guide+Chapter+1 regards Mart Jose Colin wrote: HI. I was waiting for the final version official of astlinux 6 but it doesnt seems to came soon. so I

Re: [Astlinux-users] install tutorial for astlinux using windows and physdiskwrite???

2008-11-27 Thread Martin Rogers
(safety overwrite check) please check another one this in windows. so I couldnt to write the compact flash. and If I could. I dont know how to make CF boot. or install On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Martin Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jose I think the Using Windows to Prepare the CF

Re: [Astlinux-users] install tutorial for astlinux using windows and physdiskwrite???

2008-11-27 Thread Martin Rogers
, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Martin Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jose can't you partition the CF card before you run physdiskwrite? E.g. into 500mb and 1.5 GB partitions ? regards Mart Jose Colin wrote: HI martin. I was watching that url when at first I tried to install. however my

[Astlinux-users] Using Windows to install from.

2008-11-28 Thread Martin Rogers
. Physdiskwrite -u astlinux-0.6.2-net5501.img This will write the .img file to ant CF over 800mb NOTE: Read the onscreen instructions carefully when you select CF Cheers Cleve -Original Message- From: Martin Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 27 November 2008 7

Re: [Astlinux-users] Securing Astlinux 0.6.1

2008-12-01 Thread Martin Rogers
is the default yes On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Martin Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using SIP you should also be paranoid and set allowguest=no, as this defaults to yes. Mart In the default sip.conf is this line: ;allowguest=no; Allow or reject guest calls

Re: [Astlinux-users] Securing Astlinux 0.6.1

2008-12-02 Thread Martin Rogers
If you allow calls to your default context to be relayed back out then you can be in a position where unregistered entities can use your machine to make free calls. I guess this is a security issue. Certainly that can be an issue that one should be careful of when setting up a PBX. But

[Astlinux-users] Asterisk exiting

2008-12-10 Thread Martin Rogers
I am experiencing an odd problem since going to 0.6.1 (via) running on a Wyse Winterm box. The 0.6.1 upgrade could coincidental, my purpose in mentioning it here is to see if I can narrow down the cause based on others' experiences. Very simply, if I leave the PBX powered on overnight, in the

Re: [Astlinux-users] Asterisk exiting

2008-12-11 Thread Martin Rogers
that setup? And if so, do your phones/ATAs tell you about what time they started having problems with contacting/registering with your Asterisk box? --Tod On Dec 10, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Martin Rogers wrote: I am experiencing an odd problem since going to 0.6.1 (via) running on a Wyse Winterm box

Re: [Astlinux-users] Asterisk exiting

2008-12-13 Thread Martin Rogers
/index.php/No_Shutdown --Tod On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:01 AM, Martin Rogers wrote: Tod, there is nothing of interest in either log file. I guess I should really be running with 0.6.2 so it that would be one worthwhile change I could make. I will look into setting up syslog on the phones

Re: [Astlinux-users] Asterisk exiting

2008-12-18 Thread Martin Rogers
Tod kindly provided me with a gdb, and ZAP looks like it is the problem area. However I think I need a version of Astlinux 0.6.2 which is compiled with debug symbols before I can go any further. (gdb) bt full #0 0x0809c1fb in ast_frame_free () No symbol table info available. #1 0x40322504 in ??

Re: [Astlinux-users] Asterisk exiting

2008-12-18 Thread Martin Rogers
Darrick thank you for your reply. My hardware is a TDM400P with 2 * FXO and 1 * FXS daughter boards It has been working fine for the last year. The problems have only come about (coincidentally) since going to 0.6.2, and more significantly since the temperature has dropped. This particular box

Re: [Astlinux-users] Asterisk exiting

2008-12-18 Thread Martin Rogers
Michael, thanks for your reply. I will bear this in mind. Mart Hi Martin, I had a similar problem with my Soekris net4801 and a 1-port HFC ISDB card. The box was crashing every few days or sometimes just Asterisk was silently crashing. Because I still had warrenty for it, I sent

Re: [Astlinux-users] CF not getting cheaper...

2008-12-20 Thread Martin Rogers
These are very cheap indeed and are the same part number as the originals used in the Neoware E140 (although this particular supplier only ships to the UK) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=230294650469ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:GB:1123 regards Mart S. Erisman wrote: Philip A.

[Astlinux-users] Extending the life of flash

2008-12-29 Thread Martin Rogers
Since upgrading to 0.6.2, partitioning my flash disk and running genunion I am now not only able to make ordinary configuration changes sticky but the root password too. The trouble is however that if your mobo only supports a single hard disk channel, having multiple partitions does not really

Re: [Astlinux-users] Extending the life of flash

2008-12-29 Thread Martin Rogers
if they were on ramdisk David On 12/29/08, Martin Rogers fromastlinux-us...@mhr.me.uk wrote: Since upgrading to 0.6.2, partitioning my flash disk and running genunion I am now not only able to make ordinary configuration changes sticky but the root password too. The trouble is however

Re: [Astlinux-users] Extending the life of flash

2008-12-30 Thread Martin Rogers
Michael Keuter wrote: Since upgrading to 0.6.2, partitioning my flash disk and running genunion I am now not only able to make ordinary configuration changes sticky but the root password too. The trouble is however that if your mobo only supports a single hard disk channel, having multiple

Re: [Astlinux-users] Extending the life of flash

2008-12-30 Thread Martin Rogers
Michael Keuter wrote: Michael Keuter wrote: Since upgrading to 0.6.2, partitioning my flash disk and running genunion I am now not only able to make ordinary configuration changes sticky but the root password too. The trouble is however that if your mobo only supports a single hard

Re: [Astlinux-users] Extending the life of flash

2008-12-30 Thread Martin Rogers
); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:46:55 -0600 User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:47:27 +, Martin Rogers fromastlinux-us...@mhr.me.uk wrote: Michael Keuter wrote: Michael Keuter wrote: Since upgrading

Re: [Astlinux-users] Extending the life of flash

2009-01-01 Thread Martin Rogers
/0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:47:27 +, Martin Rogers fromastlinux-us...@mhr.me.uk wrote: Michael Keuter wrote: Michael Keuter wrote: Since upgrading to 0.6.2, partitioning my flash disk and running genunion I am now

Re: [Astlinux-users] stability and asturw disk corruption

2009-01-03 Thread Martin Rogers
Just curious, but rather than wait for 1.4.23, wouldn't it be better to head straight for 1.6 ? Thanks Mart Darrick Hartman wrote: David, Remove the setting of PERSISTLOG. We've updated the init script after 0.6.2 was released. Before if PERSISTLOG was set to anything, it would log to

Re: [Astlinux-users] stability and asturw disk corruption

2009-01-03 Thread Martin Rogers
I agree about the versioning, but these are just numbers. We have just moved a fairly complex dialplan from 1.4 to 1.6 and it wasn't that big a deal. More of headache actually were changes to the AMI. Mart Rob Hillis wrote: Martin Rogers wrote: Just curious, but rather than wait for 1.4.23

Re: [Astlinux-users] Extending the life of flash

2009-01-03 Thread Martin Rogers
. (this is the bsdports, but you can probably dig out the code and compile it for linux) Regards, Philip Mullis. Martin Rogers wrote: David some nice questions. Answers from those in the know please. Mart David Kerr wrote: The asterisk-gui writes into its source directory

Re: [Astlinux-users] 0.6.1 upgrade - Unable , to create channel of type 'Zap' (cause 66 - Channel not implemented)

2009-01-03 Thread Martin Rogers
it if you define a channel in zapata.conf which refers to a daughter board which is not fitted :-) Most of the search engine results for this error seem to suggest that a recompilation of the code is needed. Obviously for Astlinux this is not genrerally the case. Mart Martin Rogers wrote: Hi I

[Astlinux-users] TDM400 Quality

2009-01-19 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi I have been using a TDM400 with 2 FXO cards for over a year but am disappointed in the quality. I mainly use the Astlinux box to join a number of SIP phones, but wanted to avoid having another two phones (POTS ones) on the desk for each of the two PSTN lines I have, when I can route it all

[Astlinux-users] Hardware requirements

2009-02-22 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi could anyone advise if the net5501-60 has sufficient resource for an Astlinux SOHO PBX, in particular, the fact that it has just 256MB RAM. Is this likely to be a problem going forward with newer versions of Asterisk/AstLinux. Should I just cut to the chase and settle on the net5501-70 boards.

Re: [Astlinux-users] need suggestion for hardware platform

2009-02-26 Thread Martin Rogers
Pete Kay wrote: Hi, I am trying to select the hardware platform to use for Astlinux. Could someone give some suggestions as to how VIA, Soekris, and PCEngine compare to each other in terms of price, performance, and durability? I am more inclined to VIA or Soekris. Could someone with

Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux 0.6.3 Released

2009-02-28 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi just set up my first net5501 box with 0.6.3. What a breeze. Very straight forward indeed, in fact I had more problem getting the TDM400 to fit properly in the case that I did with any CF or Astlinux issues. One thing I would say about the case, is that the unsupported corner of the PCI card

Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux 0.6.3 Some strange issues please help

2009-03-01 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi Cleve When you are trying to login, which account and password are you using. The default root password after a clean installation is astlinux. As far as your TDM card goes , have you set the ZAPMODS variable in /mnt/kd/rc.conf ? Have you setup the configuration the card for the (assuming you

Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux 0.6.3 Some strange issues please help

2009-03-01 Thread Martin Rogers
you are using ZAP rather than DAHDI) in /mnt/kd/zapatel.conf and /mnt/kd/asterisk/zapata.conf.] I am a bit lost here as I have not setup anything here, could you please give me assist me what exactly I should be doing here. Cheers Cleve -Original Message- From: Martin Rogers

Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux 0.6.3 Some strange issues please help

2009-03-01 Thread Martin Rogers
/zapata.conf files were not there I had to manually create them. On a new install do I have to run a command or something? 2.Does you analogue cards show up on the asterisk gui? I am at a loss as to why this is not working. Cleve Jansen -Original Message- From: Martin Rogers

Re: [Astlinux-users] Updating

2009-03-01 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi Phil in the past I have done this process from a command prompt by first copying the contents of the tar file onto a USB stick and then mounting this device on the target host, and simply copying the files across to the os directory. regards Mart Phil McKerracher wrote: Sorry to be thick,

Re: [Astlinux-users] Updated documentation

2009-03-02 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi Darrick thanks for the links. Can you comment on DAHDI support in 0.6.3? I understand that it wraps Asterisk 1.4.23 so it providing it is compiled in it should be available. If it is supported in 0.6.3, is there anything specific I need to do at the Astlinux level to enable it for TDM

[Astlinux-users] TZ_TIMEZONE

2009-03-05 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi I am having trouble changing TZ_TIMEZONE for UK time (Astlinux 0.6.3) /mnt/kd/rc.conf . ##GMT (UTC) is the default #TIMEZONE=America/Chicago TIMEZONE=GB ##uClibc Timezone ##See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/ xbd_chap08.html #TZ_TIMEZONE=CST6CDT

[Astlinux-users] Database Access

2009-03-07 Thread Martin Rogers
Can anyone tell me what database interface support is built into astlinux. ODBC would be useful - I would like to be able to access a SQL Server on the same lan segment. Also, is mysql built in to astlinux. Thanks. Mart

Re: [Astlinux-users] AstLinux 0.6.4 available for upgrade

2009-03-24 Thread Martin Rogers
Thanks for this. I have just run an 'upgrade firmware' from the Web UI, from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4 (on a net5501) and it worked fine. Now Runnix is coming into its own :-) Mart Darrick Hartman wrote: The AstLinux Team is happy to announce that AstLinux 0.6.4 is available. All users of AstLinux

Re: [Astlinux-users] Defeating firewalls

2009-03-24 Thread Martin Rogers
Kristian Kielhofner wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Martin Rogers fromastlinux-us...@mhr.me.uk wrote: Hi To simplify access when traveling I have started to use IAX and Zoiper from a Windows laptop, connecting back to one of my Asterisk boxes over the internet. When this works

Re: [Astlinux-users] Patching Astlinux - best practice

2009-04-14 Thread Martin Rogers
enough that I will take it as it is. I will review the .mk file packages structure and try to fold it in. Thanks Mart Darrick --Original Message-- From: Martin Rogers To: AstLinux Users Mailing List ReplyTo: AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: [Astlinux-users] Patching Astlinux

[Astlinux-users] Enabling Astlinux/Soekris hub

2009-07-03 Thread Martin Rogers
Hi I am using a Soekris net5501 with Astlinux 0.6.4. My current configuration involves a TDM400 and two VOIP phones. The net5501 and the two phones interconnect via a separate hub (the net5501 connects via its eth0 port). What I would like to do is ensble the other eth ports on the net5501

Re: [Astlinux-users] Enabling Astlinux/Soekris hub

2009-07-04 Thread Martin Rogers
Mailing List astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Enabling Astlinux/Soekris hub INTIF=br1 BRIDGE1=eth0 eth1 And that's it. Martin Rogers wrote: Hi I am using a Soekris net5501 with Astlinux 0.6.4. My current