Topic: [Announce]... Er... Loads of Asterisk/SAIL stuff

[SARK devs]

HI all

OK...

6 new asterisk and two new SAIL rpms have gone up to the mirrors.   These cover the three basic flavours we currently support;  Regular 1.2 Asterisk, Bristuff/Florz  1.2 Asterisk (for HFC users) and 1.4 Asterisk.  The release nuimbers are as follows:-

smeserver-asterisk-1.2.10-8.i686.rpm
smeserver-asterisk-zappri-MPP-1.2.6-6.i686.rpm

anabri-asterisk-florz-1.2.10-8.i686.rpm
anabri-asterisk-zappri-florz-1.2.6-7.i686.rpm

smeserver-asterisk-1.4.1-7.i686.rpm
smeserver-asterisk-zappri-MPP-1.4.0-5.i686.rpm

All can be found on Ibiblio

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/selintra/RPMS/

All have been given a new "kernel release tolerant" fix.  In theory, you shouldn't have to move modules around anymore to support the ever changing CentOS kernel releases.  However, we need your help testing this feature so please install on a fresh server or server-image and report back your experiences.   You should be able to install, do yum updates etc etc without having to worry about the Asterisk Kernel modules.  This is a first out with this feature so YMMV.

There are also 2 new SAIL rpms...

With Asterisk 1.2 (regular or Bristuff)  you should run the latest 2.1.14 release

ftp://81.149.154.14/Pre-Releases/selintra-sail-2.1.14-457.noarch.rpm

With Asterisk 1.4 you MUST run the latest 2.1.15 release

selintra-sail-2.1.15-468.noarch.rpm

ftp://81.149.154.14/Pre-Releases/selintra-sail-2.1.15-468.noarch.rpm

Both these releases have some new "mass-deployment" features, the most important of which is central directory and Speeddial for Aastra and Snom phones.  You can find details on the Docs site..

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

This feature allows you to create a freeform directory in headers and have it automatically downloaded to all the phones on your network (provided they are Snoms or Aastras).  If you want us to include other phone types then please shout, obviously they MUST support remote directory provisioning (many don't).

2.1.15 ONLY has a full mISDN implementation built by Herve Pendeville.  It is very impressive and supports many more card types than Bristuff including Junghanns, Beronet, AVM Fritz and most single HFC based cards.  Both single and multi HFC units can be run in either NT and TE mode (or even mixed for the multis) meaning that you can run the system as a Gateway to a legacy ISDN2 based PBX.  Pretty damn cool.  Herve has done a top rate job with this implementation. 2.1.15 also has had some bug fixes applied and supports mySQL CDR logging again.

From now on, you will see fewer 2.1.14 releases as we run down the 1.2 support and hopefully many more new 2.1.15/1.4 enhancements.

Kind Regards

Selintra

[Tib]

selintra

Can't find these files at the location ... did you guys take em back off or is it a sync problem

smeserver-asterisk-1.4.1-7.i686.rpm
smeserver-asterisk-zappri-MPP-1.4.0-5.i686.rpm

Can only find:

smeserver-asterisk-1.4.1-3.i686.rpm
smeserver-asterisk-zappri-MPP-1.4.0-4.i686.rpm


Regards,

Tib

[SARK devs]

Hi Tib,

Looks like something odd.  I'll reload and see if that fixes it.

Thanks for letting me know.

Best

S

[SARK devs]

HI again Tib,

I looked on our FTP account and the files appear to be there.  However, I've deleted them and now they are reloading so you should have them shortly.

Also there was an error in the announce - the correct 2.1.15 SAIL version is -468 and the correct 2.1.14 version is -457.  You can get them at

ftp://81.149.154.14/Pre-Releases/

Best


S

[fpausp]

Hi Selintra,

I like to use:

smeserver-asterisk-1.4.1-7.i686.rpm
smeserver-asterisk-zappri-MPP-1.4.0-5.i686.rpm

and german language sound-file:

sme-ast-de-de-gpl-sounds-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm


What config-files must i edit and how to get german sound ?


regards
fpausp

[SARK devs]

Hi

You need to edit each sound channel (zap, sip, iax) that you intend to use.  In headers for each one you can add

lang=de

I think that should do it for you.

Kind Regards

Selintra

[Tib]

Hello selintra

I can see all the files now .. thanks

Will try them out soon.


Regards,

Tib

[fpausp]

Hi Selintra,

Thanks your help german-sound is working with "language=de" in Headers (sip.conf, iax.conf, zapata.conf), now i like to get a isdn-card working.

I tested three severel cards in the PCI Cards Section (1 x hfc, 2 x different avm models) with no luck.

Output of PCI Card Scan is:

Loading zaptel...
Loading ztdummy...

Zaptel view of card in /proc/zaptel/1
 Span 1: ZTDUMMY/1 "ZTDUMMY/1 1"


Is there anything else to install or configure ?


regards
fpausp

[SARK devs]

Hi

re HFC BRI Card

This is probably because you are using an HFC card which we've not seen before or you are NOT running the ISDN version of asterisk (anabri-asterisk...).  Are you running 2.1.14 or 2.1.15?

If you are running 2.1.14 you can find full instructions how to add support for your card here...

http://www.selintra.com/docs/cgi-bin/view/Main/DocChapter258

If you are running 2.1.15 then it will be a few days before we have instructions for you.

Kind Regards

Selintra

[fpausp]

Hi again,

I installed:

nmap-3.70-1.i386.rpm
perl-Term-ReadKey-2.21-1.1.el3.rf.i386.rpm
selintra-sail-2.1.15-453.noarch.rpm
sme-ast-de-de-gpl-sounds-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
smeserver-asterisk-1.4.1-7.i686.rpm
smeserver-asterisk-zappri-MPP-1.4.0-5.i686.rpm
tftp-server-0.39-2.i386.rpm
xinetd-2.3.13-4.4E.1.i386.rpm

with:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save


The hfc-card should work because it does in an previous version of asterisk/selintra.



regards
fpausp

[SARK devs]

Hi

I notice you have installed SAIL-453, which is the one we initially siggested in the announce, however there are some known mISDN related errors in that release.  Please try -468 instead.  


Best

Selintra

[fpausp]

will try -468 on evening.

bye !

[kb-ohnemus]

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/selintra/RPMS/

All have been given a new "kernel release tolerant" fix.  In theory, you shouldn't have to move modules around anymore to support the ever changing CentOS kernel releases.  However, we need your help testing this feature so please install on a fresh server or server-image and report back your experiences.   You should be able to install, do yum updates etc etc without having to worry about the Asterisk Kernel modules.  This is a first out with this feature so YMMV.

Hi Selintra, how is this supposed to work? The kernel modules are now in /etc/selintra/up, and asterisk won't find them in my case. So I again copied them to /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.10.EL

[SARK devs]

how is this supposed to work?

It is not only in UP, there is also a version in SMP.  It works by copying the modules to /lib/{uname -r}/extras in the startup daemon (if they aren't present).  

Did you try starting asterisk with

/etc/init.d/asterisk start

?


Best

S

[kb-ohnemus]

Hi again,

yes, I started with /etc/init.d/asterisk start, but nothing was copied. Where is the copy-command defined? I can't find it in /etc/init.d/asterisk

BTW: I use anabri-asterisk-florz-1.2.10-8.i686.rpm and anabri-asterisk-zappri-florz-1.2.6-7.i686.rpm. There only UP exists.

So I just had a look at the NON-ISDN-Version of init.d/asterisk. There the copy-command exists, but not in the ISDN-Version.