# Zaptel error

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/zaptel-error/14198>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [May 4, 2007, 7:38am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/zaptel-error/14198 "2007-05-04T07:38:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![janspare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/90ced4/32.png) [@janspare](https://community.asterisk.org/u/janspare)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 7:38am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/zaptel-error/14198/1 "2007-05-04T07:38:15Z")

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im loading zaptel module with this command as follows:

# modprobe zaptel

unfortunately an error occured which goes like this:

Fatal: Module zaptel not found

what will i do???

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**Author:** ![valley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@valley](https://community.asterisk.org/u/valley)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/zaptel-error/14198/2 "2007-05-04T07:56:10Z")

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Linux distribution? Zaptel version? Kernel version? (uname -r) What’s under /lib/modules/? (ls -l /lib/modules). What’s output from

```auto

```

Zaptel 1.2 seems to assume existence of certain directory under /lib/modules that my Debian/Ubuntu system lacks. Worse, it went on to create that directory, which depmod had no idea about. I had to remove this directory and create a symbolic link myself, like

[code]# rm -r /lib/modules/`uname -r |cut -d- -f1`

# ln -s `uname -r` /lib/modules/`uname -r |cut -d- -f1`

# make install[/code]