Hi there!
I am having big trouble setting up ISDN. I'm a long-time ISDN user, I need
this for connecting to some remote systems that do not have an internet
connection. I always used my server for this, but due to a sudden
breakdown of phone+dsl on that machine (which is far away, I have no
physical access), I tried setting up ISDN on my machine here. BTW, all
machines on which I have set up ISDN have AVM Fritz PCI cards.
Trouble, big trouble. Normally, it should be just a matter of emerging
fcpci for the fcpci.ko kernel module, emerge capi4k-utils, edit a line in
/etc/capi.conf to define my card, then create a little config in
/etc/ppp/peers, and set the PAP login data in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. But
that does not work now.
net-dialup/fcpci does not compile, but I found a patch on bugs.gentoo.org,
and the module seems to load file. Apart from a message ("IRQ 20/fcpci:
IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs"), but I saw thsi in some
other howtos, so it's probably not a problem.
But /etc/init.d/capi fails to start, when calling 'capiinit activate':
ERROR: cannot open /dev/capi20 nor /dev/isdn/capi20 - No such device or
address (6)
This file is existing:
crw------- 1 root root 191, 20 22. Jun 23:35 /dev/capi20
Changing permissions does not help.
I also tried the other kernel modules, net-dialup/fritzcapi, but that does
not build either - it does not find linux/auconf.h. Huh? I have this in
/usr/lib64/klibc/include/ only. On other Gentoo systems, this should be in
the kernel's include directory. Maybe 2.6.33 is too new for that?
Then I tried mISDN, and guess what, it also does not compile at all. There
is a bug report (#265581), but its over a year old without progress.
So I downloaded mISDN and built it according to http://www.misdn.org/,
which seemed to work. But I get the same capi error. So it's probably not
a problem with the ISDN card kernel driver, but with the CAPI setup.
I'm out of ideas. What's wrong with /dev/capi20?
Wonko
