Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-23 Thread jennyw
dbruce wrote: The solution to the IRQ issue is IO-APIC. Recompile your kernel with IO-APIC support (most new motherboards support IO-APIC)... If your board supports it, It WILL solve all your IRQ issues... If your board does not support it then it will make no difference. I've never heard

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-23 Thread jennyw
Karl S. Katzke wrote: Next time, I'd actually buy a Dell SC420 or something similar. :-P Honestly, I'm really scared of Dell hardware. Some of the most messed up computers I've worked on have come from Dell. I hear their servers are better than their laptops and desktops, but having only

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-23 Thread Richard Scobie
jennyw wrote: I've never heard about IO-APIC before, so I just did a Google search. The articles I found say that it's an Intel thing, and, since I have an AMD processor w/ ASUS motherboard, it's unlikely it'll work, right? Even so, it sounds interesting. But does it apply to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-23 Thread dbruce
office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk dbruce wrote: The solution to the IRQ issue is IO-APIC. Recompile your kernel with IO-APIC support (most new motherboards support IO-APIC)... If your board supports it, It WILL solve all your IRQ issues... If your board does not support

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-23 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Monday 22 August 2005 17:07, jennyw wrote: This is for an office -- I figured that running hardware RAID would be the most likely to avoid downtime if a hard drive failed. How do most people handle this? Linux software RAID1. Don't piss away your money on anything else. Hell on a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-23 Thread Time Bandit
The main regret I have about hardware RAID is that the card is sharing an IRQ with one of the Digium cards. This whole IRQ thing is driving me crazy ... I disabled everything I could in BIOS and that freed up some IRQs, but there's no way to assign a particular IRQ to a particular device. I

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-23 Thread Wiley Siler
What good does RAID give you on writes? None whatsoever. RAID only helps performance on reading. Come again? Writing to multiple hard drives in parallel is way faster than writing the same file to one HDD. You should Google the words RAID and Write Performance. I assume you must have meant

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread Dave Cotton
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 17:06 -0700, jennyw wrote: The Digium cards actually are sharing IRQs with other devices -- the installer mentioned it could be an issue initially, but when he saw that the devices that the cards were sharing with were the network card and the video card, he said to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread jennyw
Dave Cotton wrote: This was your first experience with *, was it also the installers? Only sharing with the next busiest card in the machine the one feeding the IP phones. Yeah, I know, in retrospect it sounds really odd that we did that, but at the time he thought there was a chance it

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
jennyw wrote: AMD Sempron 2400+ 3Ware Escalade 8006-2LP (2 channel SATA RAID) Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe 1 GB RAM Jetway Radeon 9000 64MB 128Bit 4X AGP DVI/TV Out Dual Head This is a bad sign... are you running a graphical environment on this machine? I'm not sure if I can change the IRQ setting

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread Ariel Batista
jennyw wrote: Dave Cotton wrote: This was your first experience with *, was it also the installers? Only sharing with the next busiest card in the machine the one feeding the IP phones. Yeah, I know, in retrospect it sounds really odd that we did that, but at the time he thought there was

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Latham
Or IRQs can be set via ACPI On 8/22/05, Kevin P. Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jennyw wrote: AMD Sempron 2400+ 3Ware Escalade 8006-2LP (2 channel SATA RAID) Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe 1 GB RAM Jetway Radeon 9000 64MB 128Bit 4X AGP DVI/TV Out Dual Head This is a bad sign... are you

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread Huddleston, Robert
Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk Or IRQs can be set via ACPI On 8/22/05, Kevin P. Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jennyw wrote: AMD Sempron 2400+ 3Ware Escalade 8006-2LP (2 channel SATA

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Monday 22 August 2005 13:29, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: No PCI card can 'change IRQs'. IRQ assignment is under the control of the motherboard wiring and the BIOS settings. Actually that is untrue. There are four INT# lines on a PCI bus. *everything* uses INTA# and relies on the chipset and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread Karl S. Katzke
Ooh. Jenny, your problem might be the motherboard. (I should know, I run that same motherboard at home as my gaming machine.) It's a piece of crud. I actually blew through four of them before I found one that worked properly. I wouldn't worry about the AGP running on there, but do make sure

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: Actually that is untrue. There are four INT# lines on a PCI bus. *everything* uses INTA# and relies on the chipset and motherboard to correctly wire it up so they don't share... I was going to ask Digium if they could bring all four INT# lines into the FPGA and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread jennyw
Karl S. Katzke wrote: Ooh. Jenny, your problem might be the motherboard. (I should know, I run that same motherboard at home as my gaming machine.) It's a piece of crud. Oh, great. ;-) For next time, does anyone have recommendations for a particular motherboard or a particular type of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread Karl S. Katzke
Oh, great. ;-) For next time, does anyone have recommendations for a particular motherboard or a particular type of motherboard? Next time, I'd actually buy a Dell SC420 or something similar. :-P X isn't installed, so you can spend more time w/ your sister. ;-) Aww, drat ... I mean,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread Jonathan k. Creasy
I'm not having any problems with the SPA-841's at the moment. I have 15 of them in use right now. The other phones we use are the Polycom IP30X's and they are really nice phones for that price range. I haven't tried a really expensive phone so I may not know what I'm missing. -Jonathan I'm

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread dbruce
The solution to the IRQ issue is IO-APIC. Recompile your kernel with IO-APIC support (most new motherboards support IO-APIC)... If your board supports it, It WILL solve all your IRQ issues... If your board does not support it then it will make no difference. Once you have the IRQ issue resolved,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-21 Thread John Daragon
jennyw wrote: Hi, We recently tried installing Asterisk for a small office. We figured the safest way to go would be to buy from someone who sold equipment specifically for Asterisk and to use a consultant that they recommended. However ... it didn't turn out so great. Sound quality is

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-21 Thread Ariel Batista
Jennyw, I have setup about 8 Asterisk systems with The TDM400p boards in them. Yes allot of them had at the beginning some echo and other things. But I have been able to work and get them fixed. 1) Make sure your motherboard is able to assign it's own IRQ for the board. This is one of the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-21 Thread Lists
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-21 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Sunday 21 August 2005 01:05, jennyw wrote: up too high). The reseller and the consultant both say that the most likely cause for this is using Digium cards w/ analog phone lines. Apparently, they say, sound quality can be pretty bad. The reseller/consultant aren't worth the money you paid

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Graves
I too have had trouble with FXO interfaces. I tried the Sipura SPA-3000 FXS/FXO device , X101p cards and a TDM11B card. None were satisfactory for my small office with 6 extensions and 3 lines. My longer term workaround was something that I setup just to bridge a perioud when I was taking down a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-21 Thread jennyw
Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions. I'm going to stop by the office tomorrow to try some of these out. Here's more info on the setup: We bought a brand new computer for this -- I don't have the specifics right now, but will look that up in the office tomorrow. We have two Digium cards --