HELP! No Dahdi modules on install !

[info@artemisrec.com]

I have been going through various forums through the night looking for a solution to this problem.

I am installing the new release goautodial on a laptop in order to have a portable call centre. There are 2 versions of the kernel installed one which ends with PAE and the other one which doesn't. The PAE one doesn't work and a memory error shows on the console screen during boot. The second boots up but a message appears that no Dahdi modules are loaded !! I have tried everything in order to find a solution including using yum to install various upgrades... devel packages...drivers etc

Upon searching Dahdi does reside in the hardrive under /usr/scr/dahdi

I think the problem is that the Dahdi version is compatible only with the PAE kernel but has the wrong version number for the non PAE standard kernel.

How do I resolve this as I need Dahdi for 3 way conferencing otherwise agents can't use goautodial? Everything else works, ie they can call out normally, there is 2 way audio . The Asterisk log states that pseudo Dahdi does not initialize so I know this must be the problem.

I have no problem with installing Zaptel or whatever solutions, so long as it works!!


Please help!

[williamconley]

First verify for me that you are saying the errors actually stop the boot process (errors are issued all the time, but often they are really errors so much as notices ... and can be safely ignored, so saying it stops the boot process would help).

Next: Consider using Vicibox Redux (from Vicibox.com) to see if the drivers in that installation are more friendly with your laptop. May resolve your issue quite easily if it works. More recent release, may have better matched drivers.

[gardo]

If you need portability I recommend having the server hosted or rented in a data center. Laptops are not known for their performance. That being said, you can easily compile DAHDI by doing the following steps:

1. cd /usr/src/dahdi
2. make
3. make install

You can restart the server afterwards.

The default DAHDI modules that came with GoAutoDial is built for the kernel-PAE. Follow the steps above and you'll have it available for the non-PAE kernel.