Zaptel drivers in VicidialNow with Astribank

[robin]

Hello,

i've set up a vicidialnow install, with everything working just fine. Unless i reboot the server.... If that happens, nothing works anymore. When i recompile the zaptel drivers, tadah! It works again just fine...

Does anybody know/heard about this problem? Or have any tips for me?

Tnx very much in advance!

[gardo]

Can you elaborate more on what you're encountering? If I remember right, the sources for Zaptel are not included on the VicidialNOW ISO.

[robin]

Hi Gardo,

i have downloaded zaptel drivers from digium (as their manual states you best could do). It is version 1.2.24.

I'll just start from the start, so you can see the whole process i went trough.

Ok, first installed vicidialnow, then downloaded the zaptel drivers from digium. Then i stated the following commands:

make
make install
make -C xpp/utils install
make config

then i do:

genzaptelconf -svdM
echo '#include zapata-channels.conf' >>/etc/asterisk/zapata.conf

Ok, after doing all of this, i adjust the extensions.conf and i can use vicidial, everything works.

When the machine reboots, asterisk does not come up. If i repeat all previous steps, it works again.

[gardo]

Can you post your /etc/rc.local file?

[robin]

Hi, i'm trying to post the contents of the file, but the forum gives me an error stating that i cannot post personal info or links??? I'll try to figure out why and if i can post it, i will post it asap.

[Op3r]

You can just post by copy and paste it here.

[robin]

hi,

if i copy and paste it, i get redirected to this message:

In order to try to prevent spammers, we do not allow our users to post URLs or enter personal data into their profile until they have posted at least 2 legitimate posts and have been with us for more than 5 days. We appreciate your understanding in this matter in order to help us eliminate spam from this forum. If you have somehow gotten this message even though you meet both of the criteria, please let us know ASAP.

[Op3r]

are you sure you are pasting it on your reply?

Here's another step. Paste it first on notepad then paste it here again.

[robin]

ok, tried your suggestion, same error... typed everything in here, same error.... replaced / with | and . with *, still the same err.....

i find this really strange, because am i posting links? no. personal info? nope....

Any other suggestions? I give it one more try, with no slashes, pounds and dots....

Nope, no succes. Maybe i'm not allowed to paste in here?? I'll have lunch first and try to type it in here in a different way

[robin]

Ok, going to give it one more go:

i will just describe it....

first it does mke2fs
then it mounts the monitor
then it creates folder for the asterisk monitor

then it disables console blanking and powersaving

then it starts the time server

then it starts apache, mysql and vsftpd

then it rolls the asterisk logs

then it clears the server related records from the database

then it loads the timersource:
modprobe zaptel
commented out modprobe wcfxo
modprobe ztdummy
ztcfg -vvvvvvvvvvvv

then it touches subsys local

then it goes to sleep for 20 seconds

then it starts up asterisk with start_asterisk_boot
and then it does motd.sh > motd

hope this equals posting my file...

[gardo]

It looks like you have the correct entries to automatically load the zaptel modules and asterisk. However, what you lack is to automatically load the astribank modules. I'm not sure what module it is since I haven't used Astribanks. You can uncomment "modprobe wcfxo" and replace "wcfxo" with the name of the module for Astribank.

[robin]

I tried to figure out what those drivers where, but not really able to find out. So, tried something else.

I put

genzaptelconf -svdM

at the end of the rc.local file, et voila, it works!

tnx for your effort to help me out here. i would have never looked for the rc.local file if you would not have pointed me there.

cheers!