# Zaptel Install Problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Asterisk Support\ **Created:** [January 2, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/zaptel-install-problems/18375 "2008-01-02T00:51:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dkirsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dkirsche](https://community.asterisk.org/u/dkirsche)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/zaptel-install-problems/18375/1 "2008-01-02T00:51:28Z")
I currently have installed Fedora 8, Asterisk 1.4.16, zaptel 1.4.7.1. and a digium TDM400 card with two fxo ports. I was able to install zaptel with no errors, but asterisk does not seem to register it as a channel. When I type ‘core show channeltypes’ zap is not listed as a registered channel driver. when I ring the line asterisk does not respond. ‘modprobe wctdm’ runs fine and does not produce any output. When I run ztcfg -vv I get the following: # Zaptel Version: 1.4.7.1 Echo Canceller: MG2 Configuration Channel map: Channel 03: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Slaves: 03) Channel 04: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Slaves: 04) 2 channels to configure. I don’t know why it says ‘2 channels to configure’ but I read in other posts that this might not mean anything and may be a slight bug. zaptel.conf fxsks=3 fxsks=4 loadzone=us defaultzone=us zapata.conf [trunkgroups] [channels] ; Default context context=PhoneLines\_Incoming signalling=fxo\_ls usecallerid=yes hidecallerid=no callwaiting=no callwaitingcallerid=yes threewaycalling=yes transfer=yes canpark=yes echocancel=yes echocancelwhenbridged=yes echotraining=yes relaxdtmf=no rxgain=10.0 txgain=0.0 signalling = fxs\_ks channel =\> 3,4 Any help on how to get the zaptel card talking to asterisk would be of great help. ---
**Author:** ![dkirsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dkirsche](https://community.asterisk.org/u/dkirsche)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/zaptel-install-problems/18375/2 "2008-01-02T01:01:27Z")
I noticed in the zapata.conf file I had signalling listed both as fxo\_ls & fxs\_ks. I removed fxo\_ls since both of the channels are fxo’s. But I still have the same issues. ---
**Author:** ![Barry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@Barry](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Barry)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/zaptel-install-problems/18375/3 "2008-01-02T05:55:43Z")
Did you maybe install zaptel after asterisk? Does asterisk’s “make menuconfig” show chan\_zap as a selected Channel Driver? ---
**Author:** ![dkirsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dkirsche](https://community.asterisk.org/u/dkirsche)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/zaptel-install-problems/18375/4 "2008-01-02T15:07:47Z")
I originally thought I installed zaptel before asterisk, but then I realized it did not install successfully so I reinstalled zaptel and then reinstalled asterisk. Could it be that I did not reinstall properly? What would the procedure be to reinstall? I ran make menuconfig and there was XXX next to chan\_zap. ---
**Author:** ![Barry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@Barry](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Barry)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/zaptel-install-problems/18375/5 "2008-01-02T16:01:18Z")
Try reinstalling asterisk. Do a make clean, run ./configure, make menuconfig (this time chan\_zap should show up without the XXX, make sure it’s selected), then continue with the build. ---
**Author:** ![dkirsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dkirsche](https://community.asterisk.org/u/dkirsche)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/zaptel-install-problems/18375/6 "2008-01-02T17:58:07Z")
It worked. Thanks!