I will echo an interest in this issues ... I have been able to implement the Sangoma A200 Analog card quite easily using Debian, CentOS and Gentoo flavors of Linux and build from scratch Asterisk ... However, all my attempts to integrate the "./Setup intstall" routines into the Astlinux build environment have met with failure ... I was not surprised by this as I was warned that the task might be byond my limited ability ...
I have been in touch with Sangoma tech support ... At one point they indicated that they were putting some effort into this but they have been silent on the issue since mid December ... At one point they flat told me that their focus is on TrixBox as that seems to be where most of the demand is ... They indicated that their limited resources have to be used where it will satisfy the greatest need ... I would be quite happy if someone a lot smarter than me could provide a pre-compiled set of drivers including patched kernel and zap drivers along with some clues as to how to install them ... If it is just too difficult to integrate Sangoma support into the Astlinux build environment, this might be an atlternative that would work for some of us ... I understand that this would make it hard to move forward with updates and would lock my system into using a particular kernel ... But if I think that if I could get the system to work reliably, I would be quite happy to leave it alone for an extended period without modification ... G.Hendershot -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Kiely Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 12:07 AM To: 'Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash' Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Sangoma Status Back in October as mentioned inline, Sangoma donated a card for development in the Astlinux environment...Does anyone know what came about with the Sangoma/Astlinux Integration? -----Original Message----- From: Kristian Kielhofner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:59 AM To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Sangoma Status Barry Fawthrop wrote: > Hi Tom and All > > If someone wants to give me a rough guide as to what is required, and > how to approach it. I would be more than willing to throw my support > behind the whole project > > Hey Kristian what is required ? > > Thank > Barry > Barry (and others), As Darrick pointed out, Sangoma has an EXCELLENT software installation and configuration mechanism. It works perfectly on every machine, every Linux distro, etc that I have ever tried to run it on. However, this comes at a sacrifice - it makes a lot of assumptions about the location of files on the system and was not designed to support cross compiling. It is also quite large. The Setup script is several thousand lines long. I have been able to get it to compile against recent versions of AstLinux. However, my current solution requires a HUGE amount of patching. Every time Sangoma releases a new version, which is often (that's a good thing), there is a good chance that I would have to rework significant portions of the patch. This requires a lot of time, and I don't want to end up in a situation (like with mISDN lately) where it takes so much time it can't be done reliably from release to release. mISDN was missing from a couple of releases, but now it is back. That is not acceptable to me and I want to work very hard to make sure something like that never happens again. As of yesterday, Sangoma has promised me a donation (presumably) for working on this issue. No bounty is necessary, and I won't take any donations from you guys for this. Thank Sangoma for doing the right thing and supporting AstLinux directly! -- Kristian Kielhofner _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/493 - Release Date: 10/23/2006 _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER: AstLinux mailing lists are moving soon: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=170462 Please move any discussions ASAP! _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER: AstLinux mailing lists are moving soon: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=170462 Please move any discussions ASAP!
