Two FXO Astralis X101P cards in older PC?

Hello

I'm using an older PC from 2000 that we have lying around at the office to learn about Asterisk using Pound Key 1.0.1 ([rpath.org/rbuilder/project/asterisk/](http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/asterisk/)). It's using an AMD Duron 600MHz, a Gigabyte GA-7ZX motherboard, and two FXO Astralis X101P clones that I bought through eBay.

Here are the three issues I have. Sorry, forgot the floppy with dmesg, lspci, and /var/log/asterisk/messages at the office :frowning:

  1. it seems like FXO card #1 shares its IRQ with the PCI Ethernet card (with no error message), while card #2 uses its own IRQ but still can’t be initialized properly (DAA with error -5) : I didn’t find any way in the BIOS to assign an IRQ to a PCI card. Can you confirm that this card is way too old, and I should find a more recent PC with a more decent motherboard?

  2. how should I write the configuration files to handle two FXO cards? Here’s what I did, but I doubt it’s kosher:

------------ /etc/zaptel.conf --------------
fxsks=1
fxsks=2
loadzone=fr
defaultzone=fr

---------------- /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf -----------
[trunkgroups]

[channels]
usecallerid=yes
hidecallerid=no
callwaiting=no
threewaycalling=yes
transfer=yes
echocancel=yes
echotraining=yes
context=incoming
signalling=fxs_ks
channel => 1
channel => 2

-------------------- /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf ----------------------
[incoming]
exten => s,1,Answer( )
exten => s,2,Echo( )

  1. How can I tell Grub to use “pci=noapci” to see if that solves the issue with the FXO cards?

Thank you
Fred.

Bekijk marko.net/asterisk/archives/0207/0369.html eens. Ik denk dat je hiermee de zaak aan de praat moet kunnen krijgen. Voor een tes/oefen server heb je naar mijn idee voldoende pc beschikbaar.

Om het probleem met de irq op te lossen kun je de x100p kaart in een ander pci-slot proberen. Verder is het verstandig om alles wat je niet gebruikt in de bios uit te schakelen.

Success!

Thanks, I’ll give it a shot tomorrow.

Sorry, my Dutch is a bit rusty :wink:

What about /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf for two channels?

[channels]
usecallerid=yes
hidecallerid=no
callwaiting=no
threewaycalling=yes
transfer=yes
echocancel=yes
echotraining=yes

context=incoming
signalling=fxs_ks
channel => 1
channel => 2

Thx
Fred.

I’d similar problem. If I plug 2 X100P into 1 PC, only 1 card can be recongnized. So I can use 1 card only !