[Asterisk-Users] BRI cards, HFC, and bristuff - a general question to clear up my understanding.
Hi Folks, After doing extensive reading it seems that I am more confused than when I started out. I have an Asustek ISDNLink (P-IN100-ST-D) BRI card. I know that it has a Winbond W6692 chipset, but there is much confusion in my head regarding whether to use bristuff (which seems to work with the HFC chipset - is this Winbond an HFC chipset or not?), mISDN, which from my reading is still somewhat unstable, ISDN4linux which seems to be feature poor or capi-channel (which seems to not be supported on this card, so that's easy!). I have, in the past, got this card working with the hisax driver to do dial-up to the ISP, but this driver seems to have been deprecated. I was wondering whether those guru's out there that have had success with their BRI cards could step forward. I am loathe to buy a AVM Fritz card as they are VERY expensive here and if I can get this card working - hey presto, since these thingies are very cheap. Thanks in advance, Hamish ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] BRI cards, HFC, and bristuff - a general question to clear up my understanding.
Get a Duxbury PCI ISDN card that has the HFC-S chipset, its type approved TE2003/013 and there is enough support on the wiki at http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-pagehistory.php?page=Asterisk+zaphfc+installdiff=24Cant find much reference to winbond+asteriskCost is also ±R200 each.Rob On 11/8/05, Hamish Whittal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks,After doing extensive reading it seems that I am more confused than whenI started out.I have an Asustek ISDNLink (P-IN100-ST-D) BRI card. I know that it has aWinbond W6692 chipset, but there is much confusion in my head regarding whether to use bristuff (which seems to work with the HFC chipset - isthis Winbond an HFC chipset or not?), mISDN, which from my reading isstill somewhat unstable, ISDN4linux which seems to be feature poor or capi-channel (which seems to not be supported on this card, so that'seasy!).I have, in the past, got this card working with the hisax driver to dodial-up to the ISP, but this driver seems to have been deprecated. I was wondering whether those guru's out there that have had success withtheir BRI cards could step forward.I am loathe to buy a AVM Fritz card as they are VERY expensive here andif I can get this card working - hey presto, since these thingies are very cheap.Thanks in advance,Hamish___--Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com --Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.comhttp://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] BRI cards, HFC, and bristuff - a general question to clear up my understanding.
Hamish Whittal wrote: I have an Asustek ISDNLink (P-IN100-ST-D) BRI card. [..] This is not a card compatible with the bristuff. I don't know about the availability of the hfc-cards in your part of the world, but they are very inexpensive in Germany (around 30 EUR ~ 30 USD) I am loathe to buy a AVM Fritz card as they are VERY expensive here and if I can get this card working - hey presto, since these thingies are very cheap. If you are serious about asterisk, you don't want to try the modem route with your card. Sound will be bad. -- Best regards Peer Oliver Schmidt PGP Key ID: 0x83E1C2EA ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] BRI cards, HFC, and bristuff - a general question to clear up my understanding.
Hi Peer, Thanks for the reply. This is not a card compatible with the bristuff. Ok. This saved a host of hours scouting the net, compiling, etc. I don't know about the availability of the hfc-cards in your part of the world, but they are very inexpensive in Germany (around 30 EUR ~ 30 USD) The HFC based cards, accoding to Rob Lith are very reasonably priced here too, so I guess I'll head out to get one of those. I am loathe to buy a AVM Fritz card as they are VERY expensive here and if I can get this card working - hey presto, since these thingies are very cheap. Are you saying that I should not be going for a HFC based card at all? I guess the AVM Fritz would be first prize, but apart from not knowing where to buy them, I am concerned that when I do find one, it will be very expensive. I am just wanting this for home use, so to justify a large expense. Are these HFC cards just modems? Thanks H If you are serious about asterisk, you don't want to try the modem route with your card. Sound will be bad. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] BRI cards, HFC, and bristuff - a general question to clear up my understanding.
Essentially just modems. If you're looking to try/test and get to know Asteirsk and have BRI lines readily available going the Duxbury card route is a good cheap entry route and the're only ±R200. If you looking to a more serious production environment in a commercial environment then you would do well to look at the Junghanns or Sirrix quad cards - the price does go up a quantum to ±4000. Regards Rob On 11/8/05, Hamish Whittal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peer, Thanks for the reply. This is not a card compatible with the bristuff. Ok. This saved a host of hours scouting the net, compiling, etc. I don't know about the availability of the hfc-cards in your part of the world, but they are very inexpensive in Germany (around 30 EUR ~ 30 USD) The HFC based cards, accoding to Rob Lith are very reasonably priced here too, so I guess I'll head out to get one of those. I am loathe to buy a AVM Fritz card as they are VERY expensive here and if I can get this card working - hey presto, since these thingies are very cheap. Are you saying that I should not be going for a HFC based card at all? I guess the AVM Fritz would be first prize, but apart from not knowing where to buy them, I am concerned that when I do find one, it will be very expensive. I am just wanting this for home use, so to justify a large expense. Are these HFC cards just modems? Thanks H If you are serious about asterisk, you don't want to try the modem route with your card. Sound will be bad. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] BRI cards, HFC, and bristuff - a general question to clear up my understanding.
The bristuff has things built in to only make it work with junghanns cards, although this is easily circumvented (legally since its GPL) you might still not want to do that. When patched it will work for any hfc card afaik. (at least it on our card when we tried it). We stopped with the bristuff as bristuff will break any other zaptel cards in the same system. (pri seems logical, why the tdm card also broke is unknown to me). Have a look at chan_misdn, if it works for you specific setup it will probably be quite stable, the main problems i've seen so far is for fax passthrough coming from or going to a pri card. If you need help with the setup of chan_misdn, have a look here, http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/chan_misdn.html if you are running asterisk-1.2 beta or cvs-head you can skip the first parts as the misdn code will already be included in asterisk. Greetings, Zoa Rob Lith wrote: Get a Duxbury PCI ISDN card that has the HFC-S chipset, its type approved TE2003/013 and there is enough support on the wiki at http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-pagehistory.php?page=Asterisk+zaphfc+installdiff=24 http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-pagehistory.php?page=Asterisk+zaphfc+installdiff=24 Cant find much reference to winbond+asterisk Cost is also ±R200 each. Rob On 11/8/05, *Hamish Whittal* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, After doing extensive reading it seems that I am more confused than when I started out. I have an Asustek ISDNLink (P-IN100-ST-D) BRI card. I know that it has a Winbond W6692 chipset, but there is much confusion in my head regarding whether to use bristuff (which seems to work with the HFC chipset - is this Winbond an HFC chipset or not?), mISDN, which from my reading is still somewhat unstable, ISDN4linux which seems to be feature poor or capi-channel (which seems to not be supported on this card, so that's easy!). I have, in the past, got this card working with the hisax driver to do dial-up to the ISP, but this driver seems to have been deprecated. I was wondering whether those guru's out there that have had success with their BRI cards could step forward. I am loathe to buy a AVM Fritz card as they are VERY expensive here and if I can get this card working - hey presto, since these thingies are very cheap. Thanks in advance, Hamish ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com http://Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com mailto:Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
