Topic: Installing SAIL on SME 7.3 howto please.

[wifi]

Hi all,

Okay, I've got SME nicely setup, and on it I have VMware running great (not really relevant). Now I would like to add a VoIP server as I have some VoIP in numbers that I would like to use.
I'm reading a lot of good stuff about SAIL, but was not able (till now) to find a good howto.
All the "good" howto's point to or dead links, links to directory's (with lot's of rpm fils) or links that look like they are really outdated.

Anyone here who "might" have a note or howto on installing SAIL on a "clean" SME 7.3 server?
I really do not want to mess up, and reinstall the SME server again.... :-/

Thank you for any info on this.

[SARK devs]

http://www.selintra.com/docs/cgi-bin/view/Main/DocChapter03b

This will get you a good ATrpms install

Best

S

[wifi]

Hi selintra,

I'm new to this VoIP (read linux) stuff, and installing it.
The howto is kind of confusing to me.

Do I 1st need to install the files mentioned in "Installing Asterisk 1.4"?

yum install zaptel --enablerepo=atrpms
yum install libpri  --enablerepo=atrpms
yum install asterisk --enablerepo=atrpms
yum install zaptel-kmdl-`uname -r` --enablerepo=atrpms
yum install asterisk-addons  --enablerepo=atrpms

And than the file mentioned in the "SARK Install"?

Download the image and do...

yum localinstall sail-2.2.1-5xx.noarch.rpm --enablerepo=base

Also. What version do I need to wget / download?
The sail-2.2.1-582 or sail-2.2.1-589 or sail-2.2.1-594.noarch.rpm
(I've got no clue what 582, 589 or 594 stands for)

Sorry for the questions. As you can see I've got no clue.

[SARK devs]

Don't worry, Linux can be a bit of a steep learning curve if you are new to it. Yes you need to install asterisk 1.4.  The ATrpm installs will install asterisk 1.4 for you.  Just follow the 1.4 installation instructions as they are written in the quickstart guide.  As to SAIL, just take the latest version.  The numbers (582, 589 etc) are just sequential release numbers.  As a rule, grab the latest (highest) release number.  Once installed, asterisk should start automatically at system boot time. 

Kind Regards

S

[wifi]

Thank you again for the info.

I will give it a go later today.

[wifi]

Okay, done the install, and it looks like all is okay.
Now when I do the "PCI Setup" part as suggested in the howtoI get this.

Found following card...

01:00.0 Network controller: Cologne Chip Designs GmbH ISDN network controller [HFC-PCI] (rev 02)

Subsystem: Cologne Chip Designs GmbH ISDN Board

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 209

I/O ports at bc00 [size=8]

Memory at ff901000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]

Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1

Requesting Load of zaphfc ...

Loaded zaphfc.

Zaptel view of card in /proc/zaptel/1
 Span 1: ZTDUMMY/1 "ZTDUMMY/1 (source: Linux26) 1" (MASTER)

(by the way, there is NO initialize button when going to the PCI Cards menu. Only a Probe and STOP button are shown)

After the "Probe" I do a Commit and I get this:

Operation status report - Successfully updated System
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PCI Telephony Cards 
There are currently no PCI Telephony cards registered on the system.

 and it's showing a Probe and Stop button.
The Commit button is missing.

The PCI ISDN card that I'm using did work fine in a Debian / Asterisk setup.
Anything that I can do to get this to work in this setup?

Again. Any help appreciated!

[SARK devs]

which sail release do you have?

what did you do before the probe?

This doesn't look like a "fresh" install - ztdummy is already loaded - did you modprobe anything before the probe?

You won't see the "initialise" button on a new system install.  It will only appear once there is something to initialise.

try re-running the probe (you can't hurt anything).

after you've done that, if it still hasn't registered the card show me the following....

output from

lsmod

output from

cat /home/e-smith/db/selintra | grep zaphfc


best


S

[wifi]

Hi selintra

re: This doesn't look like a "fresh" install - ztdummy is already loaded - did you modprobe anything before the probe?
It's a 100% fresh install. All I have on this 3 day old SME 7.3 install is VMware. I did not modprobe anything before as I have no clue how to do this :/

re: which sail release do you have?
I installed: sail-2.2.1-594.noarch.rpm

re: what did you do before the probe?
Nothing. I installed all the needed stuff according to your howto, did the Cleanup "signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot" and did the "PCI Setup - you MUST perform this step the first time you bring up SAIL-2.2.1" (Open server-manager and choose "PCI Cards" from the SAIL sub-menus..... )

re: try re-running the probe (you can't hurt anything).
I did and got the same results.

re: lsmod

[root@files ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ztdummy                 2900  0
zaptel                197636  3 ztdummy
crc_ccitt               2241  1 zaptel
appletalk              32104  20
e100                   33861  0
ipt_ULOG                9029  1
ipt_REJECT              6721  1
ppdev                   9797  0
ipt_MASQUERADE          3777  1
ipt_state               1985  1
ip_nat_ftp              5041  0
ip_conntrack_ftp       72817  1 ip_nat_ftp
iptable_mangle          2881  0
iptable_nat            23549  3 ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack           41077  5 ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_state,ip_nat_ftp,ip_conntrack_ftp,iptable_nat
iptable_filter          3009  1
ip_tables              17601  7 ipt_ULOG,ipt_REJECT,ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_state,iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
vmnet                  39196  14
parport_pc             24833  0
parport                37513  2 ppdev,parport_pc
vmmon                 111012  6
loop                   17353  0
button                  6737  0
battery                 9029  0
ac                      4932  0
uhci_hcd               31705  0
ehci_hcd               31429  0
snd_intel8x0           34025  0
snd_ac97_codec         64145  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            49401  0
snd_mixer_oss          18241  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                97865  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              30149  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         10572  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         8897  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            26853  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8265  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    56357  9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10017  1 snd
mii                     5313  1 e100
bonding                66664  0
dm_snapshot            17413  0
dm_zero                 2369  0
dm_mirror              30789  0
ext3                  117577  2
jbd                    72409  1 ext3
raid1                  20161  2
dm_mod                 67065  8 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ata_piix               15045  0
libata                111261  1 ata_piix
sd_mod                 17217  0
scsi_mod              125261  2 libata,sd_mod
[root@files ~]#

re: cat /home/e-smith/db/selintra | grep zaphfc

[root@files ~]# cat /home/e-smith/db/selintra | grep zaphfc
pci:1397:2bd0:1397:2bd0=sysdev|probe|zaphfc|zzeor|EOR
zaphfc=loadmod|status|YES|zzeor|EOR
[root@files ~]#

To sum things up this is what I did to install all the needed stuff.

yum install zaptel --enablerepo=atrpms
yum install libpri  --enablerepo=atrpms
yum install asterisk --enablerepo=atrpms
yum install zaptel-kmdl-`uname -r` --enablerepo=atrpms
yum install asterisk-addons  --enablerepo=atrpms

cd /tmp

wget http://selintra.co.uk/sail/sail-2.2.1/sail-2.2.1-594.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall sail-2.2.1-594.noarch.rpm --enablerepo=base

signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

After this I continued with the "PCI Setup - you MUST perform this step the first time you bring up SAIL-2.2.1"

Thank you again for guiding / helping me.

[SARK devs]

NO problem.

Here is what is happening.  To run ISDN2E cards (which you have), you need a specially modified version of asterisk.  Digium themselves don't do a lot with ISDN2E because it's hardly ever used in America.  The version you have installed is the "vanilla" version, i.e. without the ISDN2 support.  SAIL is recognsing your card and asking Asterisk to load the correct driver for it (zaphfc) but that driver isn't present in your install.

So...

You have a couple of chioces...

You can run as you are and simply use VoIP to send and receive your phonecalls.  If, on the other hand, you really want to use your ISDN2E circuit then the easiest way forward is to install the SARK .iso.  This is a complete SME server installation with SAIL and asterisk already pre-installed.  Send an e-mail to admin@selintra.com requesting the ISDN2E .iso and we will send you the download url so you can do a re-install from scratch.  It takes about the same time as a regular SME install.

Kind Regards


S






 

 

[wifi]

That was a quick reply. Thank you for that.

I do not really need the ISDN2E, as all the phones I would like to use are IP systems.
I was a bit confused about your howto, and the "PCI Setup - you MUST perform this step the first time you bring up SAIL-2.2.1"

Anyway... Now I'm going to try and get my Voip accounts to work.

Once again thank you for your help.

PS: The ISDN card in the system is indeed an Euro version.

[SARK devs]

you MUST.....

You really MUST, even if you have no cards.  If you don't then conference rooms won't work.  This is due to the fact that Asterisk needs a timing device of some description for certain things that it does.  Normally, it takes its timing from the clock on the first card on the system.  If no cards are present then ZTDUMMY can be loaded to provide the timing source.  SAIL PCI Cards panel will automatically load ZTDUMMY if it cant find or load any cards so everyone shuld run it at least once.

Kind Regards

S

[wifi]

Hi again.

Now I'm confused again.
So.. I MUST do the "PCI Setup .." (what I did and got the 'error' ) to get it to work.
If so, The only option I really have is to email you, and install the SARK version.

I thought as you mentioned above "You can run as you are and simply use VoIP to send and receive your phonecalls." I was okay.
Again I'm only going to use IP phones.

Sorry for all the confusion.

[SARK devs]

No...

You are fine.  You DID run it.  This output from lsmod....

Code: [Select]

...
ztdummy                 2900  0
zaptel                197636  3 ztdummy
crc_ccitt               2241  1 zaptel
...
tells me that everything is OK.



Best


S

[wifi]

All understood now

If everyone was as helpful as you, the world would be so much nicer

Thank you.