All,
We have not been able to successfully install a new A102 for use in a customer installation due to have two PRI/E1s installed and operating in an Asterisk PBX server. We did successfully achieve the installation of the card itself and when the E1s are plugged in, the LEDs show green, no alarms, etc. However, when we attempt to start Asterisk, everything loads normally until Asterisk attempts to load the zapata.conf, and we get an OUCH! error. (appropriately written, it did actually hurt!) Any assistance would be hugely appreciated!!! Customer is looking at me with a loooong face! Thanks, Michael Below is all the relevant information: 1.- General Info Server DELL PE-2850 con: pabx-bna#uname -a Linux pabx-bna 2.4.27-3-686-smp #1 SMP Mon May 29 23:26:59 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux ASTERISK: asterisk-1.2.11 zaptel-1.2.8 libpri-1.2.3 Sangoma Card: Sangoma A102 2.- Steps taken for installation, configuration and operation: >From http://wiki.sangoma.com/wanpipe-linux-asterisk 3.- Information regarding the configuration of the E1s Line Coding: HDB3 Framing: CCS CRC4: No DCHAN: 16 4.- wanrouter pabx-bna:~# wanrouter summary Configuration File Summary in : /etc/wanpipe Device Protocol Type Cpu/Io Slot/Irq Bus State ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wanpipe1 WAN_AFT PCI A 3 10 Inactive pabx-bna:~# pabx-bna:~# pabx-bna:~# wanrouter hwprobe ------------------------------- | Wanpipe Hardware Probe Info | ------------------------------- 1 . AFT-A102c : SLOT=3 : BUS=10 : IRQ=77 : CPU=A : PORT=PRI : V=25 2 . AFT-A102c : SLOT=3 : BUS=10 : IRQ=77 : CPU=B : PORT=PRI : V=25 Card Cnt: S508=0 S514X=0 S518=0 A101-2=1 A104=0 A300=0 pabx-bna:~# pabx-bna:~# pabx-bna:~# wanrouter restart Shutting down device: wanpipe1 No devices running, Unloading Modules Starting WAN Router... Loading WAN drivers: wanpipe done. Starting up device: wanpipe1 Configuring interfaces: MQH1 done. pabx-bna:~# 5.- Configuration in /etc/zaptel.conf loadzone = cl defaultzone = cl # # span definitions span = 1,1,0,ccs,hdb3 span = 2,2,0,ccs,hdb3 # # channel definitions # span 1 bchan = 1-15,17-31 dchan = 16 #span 2 bchan = 32-46,48-62 dchan = 47 6.- Configuration in /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf context = default switchtype = Euroisdn usecallerid = yes callerid=asreceived echocancel = yes echocancelwhenbridged = yes ;add the is option if you are problems with DTMF detection relaxdtmf = yes rxgain = 0.0 txgain = 0.0 ; signalling = pri_cpe group = 1 channel => 1-15,17-31 channel => 32-46,48-62 7.- File /etc/wanpipe/wanpipe1.conf [devices] wanpipe1 = WAN_AFT, Comment [interfaces] MQH1 = wanpipe1, , TDM_VOICE, Comment [wanpipe1] CARD_TYPE = AFT S514CPU = A CommPort = PRI AUTO_PCISLOT = YES PCISLOT = 3 PCIBUS = 10 FE_MEDIA = E1 FE_LCODE = HDB3 FE_FRAME = NCRC4 FE_LINE = 1 TE_CLOCK = NORMAL TE_REF_CLOCK = 0 ACTIVE_CH = ALL TE_HIGHIMPEDANCE = NO FE_TXTRISTATE = NO MTU = 1500 UDPPORT = 9000 TTL = 255 IGNORE_FRONT_END = NO TDMV_SPAN = 1 TDMV_DCHAN = 1 [MQH1] ACTIVE_CH = ALL TDMV_ECHO_OFF = NO pabx-bna:~# pabx-bna:~# cd /etc/wanpipe/ pabx-bna:/etc/wanpipe# pabx-bna:/etc/wanpipe# pico start pabx-bna:/etc/wanpipe# pabx-bna:/etc/wanpipe# pabx-bna:/etc/wanpipe# pabx-bna:/etc/wanpipe# cd pabx-bna:~# pabx-bna:~# pabx-bna:~# pabx-bna:~# wanrouter restart Shutting down wanpipe1 interface: MQH1 Shutting down device: wanpipe1 No devices running, Unloading Modules Starting WAN Router... Loading WAN drivers: wanpipe done. Starting up device: wanpipe1 Configuring interfaces: MQH1 done. pabx-bna:~# pabx-bna:~# ztcfg -vvvv Zaptel Configuration ====================== SPAN 1: CCS/HDB3 Build-out: 0 db (CSU)/0-133 feet (DSX-1) SPAN 2: CCS/HDB3 Build-out: 0 db (CSU)/0-133 feet (DSX-1) Channel map: Channel 01: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 01) Channel 02: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 02) Channel 03: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 03) Channel 04: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 04) Channel 05: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 05) Channel 06: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 06) Channel 07: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 07) Channel 08: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 08) Channel 09: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 09) Channel 10: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 10) Channel 11: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 11) Channel 12: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 12) Channel 13: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 13) Channel 14: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 14) Channel 15: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 15) Channel 16: D-channel (Default) (Slaves: 16) Channel 17: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 17) Channel 18: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 18) Channel 19: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 19) Channel 20: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 20) Channel 21: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 21) Channel 22: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 22) Channel 23: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 23) Channel 24: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 24) Channel 25: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 25) Channel 26: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 26) Channel 27: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 27) Channel 28: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 28) Channel 29: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 29) Channel 30: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 30) Channel 31: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 31) Channel 32: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 32) Channel 33: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 33) Channel 34: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 34) Channel 35: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 35) Channel 36: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 36) Channel 37: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 37) Channel 38: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 38) Channel 39: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 39) Channel 40: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 40) Channel 41: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 41) Channel 42: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 42) Channel 43: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 43) Channel 44: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 44) Channel 45: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 45) Channel 46: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 46) Channel 47: D-channel (Default) (Slaves: 47) Channel 48: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 48) Channel 49: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 49) Channel 50: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 50) Channel 51: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 51) Channel 52: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 52) Channel 53: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 53) Channel 54: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 54) Channel 55: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 55) Channel 56: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 56) Channel 57: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 57) Channel 58: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 58) Channel 59: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 59) Channel 60: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 60) Channel 61: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 61) Channel 62: Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 62) 62 channels configured. ZT_SPANCONFIG failed on span 2: No such device or address (6) Comment: This is because we had connected only 1 E1 at this moment. 8.- Asterisk pabx-bna:~# asterisk -vvvvvvc == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf': Found == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/extconfig.conf': Found . . . ALL IS OK HERE. . . . == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/iaxprov.conf': Found -- Loaded provisioning template 'default' [chan_local.so] => (Local Proxy Channel) == Registered channel type 'Local' (Local Proxy Channel Driver) [chan_skinny.so] => (Skinny Client Control Protocol (Skinny)) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/skinny.conf': Found == Skinny listening on 0.0.0.0:2000 == Registered channel type 'Skinny' (Skinny Client Control Protocol (Skinny)) [chan_features.so] => (Feature Proxy Channel) == Registered channel type 'Feature' (Feature Proxy Channel Driver) [chan_oss.so] => (OSS Console Channel Driver) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/oss.conf': Found == Registered channel type 'Console' (OSS Console Channel Driver) [chan_phone.so] => (Linux Telephony API Support) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/phone.conf': Found == Registered channel type 'Phone' (Standard Linux Telephony API Driver) [chan_zap.so] => (Zapata Telephony w/PRI) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/zapata.conf': Found Oct 26 01:13:34 WARNING[8161]: chan_zap.c:921 zt_open: Unable to specify channel 1: No such device or address Oct 26 01:13:34 ERROR[8161]: chan_zap.c:6879 mkintf: Unable to open channel 1: No such device or address here = 0, tmp->channel = 1, channel = 1 Oct 26 01:13:34 ERROR[8161]: chan_zap.c:10306 setup_zap: Unable to register channel '1-15' Oct 26 01:13:34 WARNING[8161]: loader.c:414 __load_resource: chan_zap.so: load_module failed, returning -1 Oct 26 01:13:34 WARNING[8161]: loader.c:554 load_modules: Loading module chan_zap.so failed! pabx-bna:~# Ouch ... error while writing audio data: : Broken pipe Ouch ... error while writing audio data: : Broken pipe pabx-bna:~#