Troubleshooting of BRI cards

Q1, You can not compile zaptel/mISDN and asterisk

please make sure that:
1) You have installed all necessary packages and kernel source.
2) Make sure the version of kernel source is exactly same with the version of the kernel.
please check the few links:
http://www.openvox.cn/download/user_manuals_english_version/
http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/
3) make sure that you do not miss any packages or files in asterisk or zaptel.
4) make sure your system can access www.asterisk.org.
Q2, ZT_SPANCONFIG failed on span 1: Invalid argument (22)

if you are using bristuff with bri cards, please check:
1) run lspci -vvvvv, make sure the system can detect the card. Tiger jet chip will be found. If there is no such Tiger jet chip, please clean the PCI slot and try again.
2) if lspc can find the card, make sure the pci id is included in the PCI table in our driver. how to patch the picid, please refer this link:
http://www.openvox.cn/kb/entry/2/
3) if step 1 and step 2 are ok, please check the zaptel.conf or system.conf to make sure that the setting is correct.
4) if step 3 is correct, please make sure that there is no mISDN tiger jet module in the system, if it is there, please remove that or add to blacklist.
5) if you still can not boot it up, you have to recompile bristuff and asterisk again.
Q3, You can not make calls from asterisk

there are few reasons why you can not make calls:
1) check your extensions from your asterisk side, make sure your sip is ready to make calls, and SIP is with a right context what you put in extensions.conf
2) your qozap.ko or hfcmulti.ko does not boot up(leds are off).
3) leds are up and card driver has boot up properly, but the zapata.conf is
, so asterisk does not boot up properly,
please check by run: zap show channels
if is empty or no such command, you should check your zapata.conf/misdn.conf
4) if you are using mISDN, please make sure the misdn stack is up and active.
5) You maybe recompile your zaptel/mISDN and asterisk again.
Q4, How do you adjust the volume of voice for BRI cards?

You can edit rxgain and txgain in chan_misdn or zapata.conf.
Q5, list of drivers of BRI cards

Bri cards can work with these drivers:
1) mISDN-1_1_X， links:
http://wiki.openvox.cn/index.php/OpenVox_B200P_User_Manual_for_mISDN
http://www.openvox.cn/download/user_manuals_english_version
/B200P_B200E_B400P_B400E_User_Manual_mISDN.pdf
2) mISDN v2
http://www.openvox.cn/download/user_manuals_english_version
/B200%20B200E%20B400P%20B400E-User-Manual-mISDNv2.pdf
http://wiki.openvox.cn/index.php/OpenVox_B200P_User_Manual_for_mISDN(v2)
3) Bristuff
http://www.openvox.cn/download/user_manuals_english_version
/B200P_B400P_B400E_User_Manual_bristuff.pdf
http://www.openvox.cn/download/user_manuals_english_version
/B800P_User_Manual_bristuff.pdf
4) Dahdi wcb4xxp
http://bbs.openvox.cn/viewthread.php?tid=781&extra=page%3D1
5) isdn4bsd
http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?t=21080
http://turbocat.net/~hselasky/isdn4bsd/
Before implementing one of these drivers, please make an investigation for your business requirement.
Q6, B200P_B400P_B800P pin assignment

if you want to check the pin assignment, please refer this:
http://bbs.openvox.cn/viewthread.php?tid=667&extra=page%3D2
Q7, Use PCM connection with OpenVox BRI cards.

if you want to use PCM cable to connect with the two BRI cards,
please refer this link:
http://bbs.openvox.cn/viewthread.php?tid=428&extra=page%3D3
Q8, netjetpci causes a problem with mISDN(B400P)+Zaptel(A400P)

If you conbine the bri card and analog card, please remove the netjetpci,
this is a solution to solve the problem:
http://bbs.openvox.cn/viewthread.php?tid=407&extra=page%3D3
Q9, How can you open the debug for mISDN/asterisk?

1) You can edit the file logger.conf under /etc/asterisk,
enable the debug or error, those message will be stored under
/var/log/asterisk
2) you also can start your asterisk in this way:
asterisk -vvvvvvvvgc -d
3) if you want to debug the mISDN, please enable the debug in mISDN.conf
Q10, How can i check the IRQ of BRI cards?

please run the command:
cat /proc/interrupts
you should see the IRQs, Make sure the card has OWN IRQ, Do NOT share with other devices.
more details, please check from here:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+PCI+bus+Troubleshooting
Q11, the definations of NT and TE

the bri cards support NT and TE mode. you can refer these links for the definitions:
http://www.techfest.com/networking/wan/isdn.htm
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk652/tk653
/technologies_tech_note09186a0080111b16.shtml
http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/bri.html
Q12, Sound Quality Problems with Analog cards

please refer this link:
http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/pci_irq_apic_tdm_ticks_te410p_te405p_noise.html
Q13, MISDN with asterisk/trixbox/elastix

please refer these links:

http://misdn.org/index.php/MISDN_with_Asterisk
http://misdn.org/index.php/FAQ_chan_mISDN
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/chan_misdn
http://trixbox.org/wiki/chan-misdn
http://www.openvox.cn/download/other_docs
/Integration%20B100P%20B200P%20B400P%20B800P%20with%20mISDN.pdf
http://www.servercare.nl/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=34
http://www.freepbx.org/forum/freepbx/users/elastix-and-idsn
Q14, I am hearing an echo. What can I do to fix this?

please refer these links:
http://kb.digium.com/entry/1/
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+echo+cancellation
Q15, zaphfc: dropped audio (z1=2331, z2=2314, wanted 8 got 17, dropped 9)

you can have a try to set please add apm=off in your grub.conf
Q16, When will the LED's light up on my BRI cards

Due to the difference of drivers, the LEDs of cards are different.
1) If the drivers are loaded correctly, the LEDs are in RED color.
2) If the layer1 and layer2 are up, and a conversation is established, the leds will be in GREEN.
3) B100P does not support LEDs
Q17, Why is my card getting an IRQ miss?

Each peice of hardware takes 1,000 interrupts per second. When, for some reason the cards get less than this, an IRQ miss occurs. You can see if the card is missing interrupts using 'zttool.'

IRQ misses can cause different problems with Asterisk. Symptoms of IRQ misses are bad audio quality or perhaps PRI errors, although IRQ misses will not cause alarms. Also DTMF detection not working is something that can be caused by IRQ misses as well.

Several common things that contribute to IRQ misses are: -Running the X window system -Shared IRQs -No hard drive DMA -Hard drive DMA too high (shoot for udma3) -Running serial terminals or frame buffers

To check for shared IRQs you can run:

1. cat /proc/interrupts

CPU0

0 10756672 XT-PIC timer 2 0 XT-PIC cascade 5 10812879 XT-PIC uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, wctdm 10 226219 XT-PIC t1xxp, CS46XX 11 1550046 XT-PIC eth0, nvidia 12 387234 XT-PIC i8042 14 32641 XT-PIC ide0 15 18 XT-PIC ide1 NMI 0 LOC 10757616 ERR 40481 MIS 0


Notice the T100P card sharing with the sound card, and the TDM400P card is sharing with the USB controller. This will most likely cause problems. If you are not using any USB devices that would probably be ok, but it would be best to disable USB or get the card on it's own IRQ.

There are several ways to move cards to their own IRQ.

-Turn on APIC
-Tweak BIOS settings
-Try a different PCI slot
-Use setpci

refer this link from digium: http://kb.digium.com/entry/63/


Q18, Why am I having DTMF detection problems?

Zaptel DTMF Detection Problems
DTMF detection problems can be caused by a number of different factors. The most common is running the X Windows System. Another cause of DTMF detection problems is the relaxdtmf option in Zapata.conf. It may need to be turned on or off. If you need to force all DTMF detection to be done in software, you can set vpmdtmfsupport to 0 in wctdm24xxp.c or wct4xxp.c and recompile, or you can specify it as a kernel module option at runtime.

SIP DTMF Detection Problems
If you are having problems sending DTMF digits amd are using a SIP phone, make sure the dtmfmode they have set is the same on the phone and in Asterisk. Also make sure you are not sending both inband and out-of-band (rfc2833) tones.
Q19, I am getting error messages about PCI Master Aborts. What is wrong?

This is a very rare case. When your computer's PCI subsystem experiences serious problems with OpenVox's cards upon initialization of the card, Linux will print out scrolling "PCI Master Abort" messages. What you should do is go into your system's BIOS, and turn off your motherboard's PNP (plug and play) feature. If this does not resolve your issue, You should contact OpenVox support.
Q20, issues with wcb4xxp

this is a link with dahdi wcb4xxp, you many refer these links:
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=14834
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=14031
http://docs.tzafrir.org.il/dahdi-linux/README.html
https://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14031
https://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13897
Q21, list of asterisk pbx distributions:

www.elastix.org
www.trixobx.org
Q22, How can you install asterisk with Debian Ubutun

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/asterisk.htm
http://www.itinfusion.ca/asterisk/howto-installing-asterisk-on-debian-etch/
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+Linux+Debian
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Running+Asterisk+on+Debian
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Linux+Ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=136785
http://ww2.eq.uc.pt/servicos/laca/recursos/debian/voip-resources/installation-of-misdn
Q23, How can you install asterisk with Fedora?

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Linux+Fedora
http://www.asteriskguru.com/
Q24, How can you install asterisk with SuSe?

http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/asterisk_installation_compilation_suse.html
http://voip-manager.net/installation-linux-asterisk.php
Q25, install asterisk with Free BSD

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+FreeBSD
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/FreeBSD+zaptel
Q26, List of Asterisk OS Platforms

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+OS+Platforms
Q27, Centos with asterisk

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/CentOS+5.2+and+Asterisk+1.6.x+installation
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/CentOS+5+and+Asterisk+1.4.x+installation
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Linux+Centos
http://www.thanosk.net/node/7
Q28, How do you report a problem

In order to solve customer's problems very effective and efficiency,
when seeking a help from us, please give these information:
1) versions of kernel and Linux distribution
2) versions of asterisk and zaptel/dahdi
3) the name of cards used in your system
4) debug and error information from your system and asterisk
5) sending us zaptel(zaptel.conf and zapata.conf) or dahdi (system.conf and chan_dahdi.conf)
configuration files and extension.conf
6) after loading the driver, run the command: demsg and send the information to us
7) sending us the result of the command: cat /proc/interrupts
8) sending us the message of asterisk console when you making a call
9) inform the protocols you are using in your system
10) send us a working ssh account with root permission if you need us to check the system.
11) make a backup for your important files
12) describe the problem in details
13) if you are using mISDN, please open the debug mode and run dmesg to get the
error or log message.
Q29,FATAL: Module qozap.ko cannot be found

if this problem occurred, please make sure:
1) the module is compiled and installed properly
2) you entered a right kernel, which you used to compile the zaptel
3) make sure you have a access permission to load the module.
4) make sure the qozap.ko is under /lib/modules/2.6.XX/extra
Q30,FATAL: Module zaphfc.ko not found

if this problem occurred, please make sure:
1) the module is compiled and installed properly
2) you entered a right kernel, which you used to compile the zaptel
3) make sure you have a access permission to load the module.
4) make sure the zaphfc.ko is under /lib/modules/2.6.XX/extra
Q31, Disable Hisax and isdn in Centos/debian

If you are running a BRI card in the centos/FC or debian, please remove
Hisax and ISDN service from your system, add those services or modules into the system black list.
those packages will be conflict with mISDN/Bristuff/wcb4xxpdriver.
more details, please check the link:
http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1418
Q32, How to debug brisutff/mISDN

When loading the qozap.ko/zaphfc.ko with a debug mode,
please loadding the driver in this way:
modprobe qozap,ko debug=1 // open the debug and check the /var/log/message
if you run misdn, please enable the debug in misdn.conf
Q33, RHEL/Centos 5.2: xpp/xdefs.h:117: error: conflicting types for ‘bool’

please refer this:
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=12889
Q34, xpp modules do not compile with kernel 2.6.19-1.2919.fc7

please refer this:
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=9006
Q35, spinlock.h error with RHEL 4

please refer this link:
http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?p=17034&sid=c914a0a979f8437576c7aa92518fe48b
Q36, Compile error on CentOS-4.6 with Kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.ELsmp and CONFIG_DAHDI_NET

please refer this link:
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=13427
Q37, dahdi_compat.h:31:27: error: zaptel/zaptel.h: No such file

please read this:
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=14121
Q38, when compiling zaptel/bristuff, error: You do not appear to have the sources for...

please refer these links:
http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?t=7061
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2007-June/189259.html
Q39, Bug#439814: zaptel-source: oslec_echo_can_identify undefined symbol

please refer this:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2007-August/009225.html
Q40, How to install Octasic SoftEcho

please refer these links:
http://www.openvox.cn/download/user_manuals_english_version/Octvqeug_5000.pdf
http://www.octasic.com/en/products/softecho/softecho_asterisk.php
http://www.octasic.com/en/products/softecho/support.php
Q41, Bug in Zaptel 1.2.20.1 and 1.4.5.1 - Only MG2

please refer this:
http://trixbox.org/node/21080 http://www.rowetel.com/ucasterisk/oslec.html
Q42, Howto: OSLEC echo canceling + DAHDI 2.1.0.4 + Asterisk 1.4

please refer this:
http://www.asterisk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=125314&sid=9515c7b03cb14dc698e89467c3d49a86
Q43, Difference between zaptel and dahdi

please refer these links:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/DAHDI
http://docs.tzafrir.org.il/dahdi-linux/
http://docs.tzafrir.org.il/dahdi-tools/
Q44, Tonezones for zaptel.conf

The file zonedata.c contains the information about the tone zones used in libtonezone (and hence also in ztcfg). Here is a list of those zones:

us United States / North America

au Australia

fr France

nl Netherlands

uk United Kingdom

fi Finland

es Spain

jp Japan

no Norway

at Austria

nz New Zealand

it Italy

us-old United States Circa 1950 / North America

gr Greece

tw Taiwan

cl Chile

se Sweden

be Belgium

sg Singapore

il Israel

br Brazil

hu Hungary

lt Lithuania

pl Poland

za South Africa

pt Portugal

ee Estonia

mx Mexico

in India

de Germany

ch Switzerland

dk Denmark

cz Czech Republic

cn China

ar Argentina

my Malaysia

th Thailand

bg Bulgaria

ve Venezuela

ph Philippines

ru Russian Federation

tr Turkey
Q45, Tools from zaptel to dahdi

ztcfg -> dahdi_cfg
ztmonitor -> dahdi_monitor
ztscan -> dahdi_scan
ztspeed -> dahdi_speed
zttest -> dahdi_test
zttool -> dahdi_tool
zapconf -> dahdi_genconf (deprecates genzaptelconf)
Q46, Why are you unable to call out with Asterisk 1.4.22?

If you are using wctdm or opvxa1200 with Zaptel and Asterisk 1.4.22 then there is a known issue with outbound calls. The reason you are not able to call out is because Asterisk 1.4.22 has a new feature which detects if a analog line is plugged in or not, but this feature only works with Dahdi. So to fix the issue you can do one of the following.
edit the file under /asterisk-1.4.22、channels/chan_dahdi.c" find this line

1. ifdef DAHDI_CHECK_HOOKSTATE return 0;
2. else return 1;

Change the "0" to a "1"

1. ifdef DAHDI_CHECK_HOOKSTATE return 1;
2. else return 1;

Q47, install Asterisk zaphfc

please refer these links:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+zaphfc+install
http://www.openvox.cn/download/user_manuals_english_version/B100P_User_Manual_bristuff.pdf
Q48, Install bri card and analog cards in one system

if you want to install analog cards and bri cards in one system, it can be done in two ways:
1) install bristuff for both of analog cards and bri cards.
2) install mISDN with bri cards and zaptel with analog cards
please refer this link:
http://www.howtoforge.com/asterisk-zaptel-libpri-misdn-asterisk-addons-asterisk-gui-on-debian-etch
Q49, mISDN v2(LCR) with debian/asterisk

please refer the link:
http://blog.runtux.com/2009/03/09/61/
Q50, patch---mISDN rejects incoming calls

misdn rejects incoming calls, please refer this patch:
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=13488
Q51, B200P/B400P/B100P with trixbox 2.8 can't load chan_misdn.so

Please refer this link:
http://bbs.openvox.cn/viewthread.php?tid=890&extra=page%3D1
Q52, How to install B200P/B400P/B100P/B800P with trixbox 2.6

Please refer this link:
http://bbs.openvox.cn/viewthread.php?tid=1016&page=1&extra=page%3D1
Q53, How to install Ubuntu Server 9.04 with Asterisk and OpenVox B800P

Please refer this link:
http://bbs.openvox.cn/viewthread.php?tid=1025&page=1&extra=page%3D1#pid4369
Q54, what kinds of protocols does mISDN support

mISDN so far, supports DSS1(EURO ISDN), it does not support NI1(National ISDN 1).
Q55, To get the quick support, what information about the system I should send?

* Versions of kernel and Linux distribution
* Versions of asterisk and zaptel/dahdi
* Model of OpenVox products
* Debug and error information from your system and asterisk
* Zaptel(zaptel.conf and zapata.conf) or dahdi (system.conf and chan_dahdi.conf) configuration files and extension.conf if your have trouble with dialplan
* After loading the driver, run the command: demsg and send the information to us
* Output of the command: cat /proc/interrupts
* Message in asterisk console when you making a call, if you have trouble to drop/receive calls.
* Protocols you want to use(FXS,FXO,PRI..)
* Ssh account with root permission if you need us to check the system.
* Make a backup for your important files
* Describe the problem in details
* Serial numbers of OpenVox's products