i have dahdi 2.2 the problem is fxotune doesn't work and gives the following message

/dev/zap/252 absent: No such file or directory


it used to work before i did the upgrade to 2.2

any ideas?

thanks in advance

I believe you refer to fxotune -s

which is run as part of the startup process

consider perusing:

man fxotune

check our /etc/fxotune.conf file,

You probably need to run it manually if you move from zaptel to dahdi.

still the same problem, before installing this version of dahdi things were fine and i was not getting that dreaded message.

but now, i think the configuration, somewhere, needs to point to

/dev/dahdi

instead of

/dev/zap

where can i fix this??

thank you

I guess you decided to skip the perusing bit.

stop asterisk (or fxotune won't have access to the trunks)

run fxotune -v -i 2

to set up your dahdi devices (just like it says on the man page, where 2 breaks dialtone on the fxo trunk)

you need to use appropriate -l -m -n -t for your location also. Unless the code knows when to expect silence and when to expect a busy tone cadence (relevant to your location) then there is little point in using fxotune at all, just empty the /etc/fxotune.conf file, your errors will disapper, but you wont have an optimised ec setup.


caveat :

from the man page,

If you connect your device to a PSTN provider that is not in the US, there is a similar operation you should apply before even getting
to fxotune: setting the opermode. The opermode sets a number of country-specific parameters. For the Digium analog cards this is set
through the kernel module parameter

no dicko that all was so away from the target.. running fxotune from root directly, makes it point to wrong places..


the solution is (drum sound in the background)

/usr/src/dahdi-tools-2.2.0/fxotune -i 4

that will solve the wrong pointing problem.

dicko what do you mean by:

Well Yosarian you got yourself in a catch 22.

that sounds funny

Joseph Heller's Catch-22, poor old Yosarian couldn't leave the Air Force by saying he was crazy, as a crazy man would never claim he was crazy, therefore Yosarian was in the eyes of the Air Force sane (even though he wasn't !!)

Actually as you have two fxotunes on the system. The wrong one is in the path, and as you haven't done the make install in the dahdi-tools directory to correct that situation you will have to be path explicit not just for fxotune but all the dahdi_tools .

Surely Drum-rolls are for success, but if you want one for your work-around, then feel free

(Be careful, if you mix installing by yum, rpm and hand compiling you can get yourself in some really muddy waters)

quote" Surely Drum-rolls are for success, but if you want one for your work-around, then feel free

unquote
drum was rolling for the suspence before i had to say the answer not for success

and yes, i've made install for dahdi tools!

Yet it apparently didn't complete successfully or the right fxotune would have been found . . .
However if it works for you . . . (I prefer a more purist philosophy)

[edit]
by purist I mean usually the process is


remove any previously rpm installed versions of the project
make clean
./configure (if neccessary)
make
make install

my guess is you missed the "old rpms and the make clean" bits