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[Announce] SAIL-272 & New Asterisk rpms

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[Announce] SAIL-272 & New Asterisk rpms
« on: August 01, 2006, 08:27:43 PM »
HI All,

We've just sent a bunch of rpms up to the mirrors.  They are the SAIL 272 release together with brand new asterisk rpms (built automatically by our spiffy new asterisk rpm-generator) .  

We've also rationalised the ftp sites to make them (hopefully) less confusing.

Essentially there are two new sets of asterisk rpms - ISDN BRI and None-ISDN BRI.  Why 2 sets?  Well because the BRI software, which is a packaging of the latest BriStuff releases from Junghanns, won't run with the SMP Kernel.  The "ordinary" asterisk (none-ISDN) release will run with both UP and SMP Kernels.  Also the none-ISDN release is 1.2.10-1 whereas the Junghanns release is at 1.2.9-1.  Although these packages (rpms) have special code in them for SAIL, they should run quite happily standalone.  When they are started, they check to see if SAIL is present.  If it isn't they behave just like vanilla asterisk.  

SAIL-2.1.13-272 will ONLY run with these above two releases (it won't install with earlier releases).  This is because we have completely re-written the PCI Card detection code in -272 and it won't run with earlier asterisk rpms.   -272 is on the Release Candidate tag and we are gradually getting all of the bugs out of it as we take it to V2.1 Final.  

There are full install instructions (with pictures!) on the docs site here

http://81.149.154.14/docs/cgi-bin/view/Main/SysVersion2Release1Issue13

Please read the 2.1.13 Quick notes thoroughly before attempting an install.  It isn't hard but there are a couple of sequential operations to be observed.

Also the docs site has been completely overhauled with new screen shots and text to match the new release.

The ISDN code has been quite heavily tested on our simulator here and it has so far executed flawlessly, however we will be interested to see what happens "out in the field" when it runs against real ISDN circuits.  All of our testing has been done with "Billion" HFC Cards (V3.0 - Serial No - 4719170000098).


Kind Regards

Selintra

marcelb

[Announce] SAIL-272 & New Asterisk rpms
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2006, 09:46:35 AM »
Hi Selintra,

We have made a fresch install this morning and tested the PCI scan:

Found following card...

02:08.0 Network controller: Cologne Chip Designs GmbH ISDN network controller [HFC-PCI] (rev 02)
   Subsystem: Advanced Integrations Research: Unknown device c101
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 11
   I/O ports at ecf8
   Memory at fe9ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
   Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1

Loading zaptel...
No Telephony Boards found - check admin-error log for probe failures...

Signalling asterisk daemon to load ZTDUMMY for timing purposes


What kind of admin-error  check can I do?

Regards Marcel

marcelb

[Announce] SAIL-272 & New Asterisk rpms
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2006, 09:55:51 AM »
Hi Selintra,

We have made a fresch install this morning and tested the PCI scan:

Found following card...

02:08.0 Network controller: Cologne Chip Designs GmbH ISDN network controller [HFC-PCI] (rev 02)
   Subsystem: Advanced Integrations Research: Unknown device c101
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 11
   I/O ports at ecf8
   Memory at fe9ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
   Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1

Loading zaptel...
No Telephony Boards found - check admin-error log for probe failures...

Signalling asterisk daemon to load ZTDUMMY for timing purposes


What kind of admin-error  check can I do?

Regards Marcel

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[Announce] SAIL-272 & New Asterisk rpms
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2006, 10:12:30 AM »
Hi Marcel,

Hey this is pretty cool! - It clearly doesn't  like your board.  Can we have your system for twenty minutes so we can see exactly what's going on?

E-mail me at admin and let me know.

btw - the message is telling you to look in http/admin_error_log.  There will be a reason message in there for why it rejected the board.


Very Best

Jeff