[VoIP] For those of you who have just installed Asterisk1.4.16.2

[windmill]

My current working *box is a P3/600 with two X100P cards running *1.4.13 
on Fedora 7 very nicely. The standby *box I am busily loading up between 
chores is a P3/450 with one X100P card, it also uses F7 and will use 
*1.4.17 when I get around to it.

Interestingly the P3/600 has a 1997 or earlier mobo with just three PCI 
slots whilst the P3/450 has a 1999/2000 mobo with three PCI slots, the 
third slot being shared with an ISA slot.

These two old PCs have blown away my XP1800 and XP3000 AMD machines, 
these were homebuilt in 2002 and 2003, which have failed as *boxes to a 
great extent, indeed I think the XP3000 may be fatally wounded as I was 
unable to get a hard drive to run the last time I looked at it. The 
XP1800 was my *pbx2 that failed to reboot properly following a prolonged 
power outage on 20th December last and it has donated its 60Gb hard 
drive to the P3/450 designated *pbx8.

What has become a problem is finding hard drives for *boxes built on 
older PCs, I have some new 160Gb drives lying around but they will only 
run as 32Gb and I hate wasting all that capacity. 60Gb seems to be the 
maximum I can get to run in the P3s and the 80Gb drives I tried won't 
work unless I tell the BIOS they are 60Gb or less.

I have an old AMD K2/??? which I will probably turn into something 
useful, I had earmarked it as a *pbx but perhaps I'll build a router out 
of it. Other *boxes will be built on quite solidly built Aopen P2/350 
PCs which I have lying about in various states. The drawback to them is 
taht they have only 4.3Gb hard drives and I found there wasn't even 
spare capacity to perform yum updates!

Interesting comments about the TDM cards, I have not really considered 
them as they are pricey and I am more inclined to go for external 
multiport gateways as it is simply less hassle. Currently I am quite 
happy with the X100P cards on my systems.

Brian

John Novack wrote:
> Spock71 wrote:
>   
>> *//* 
> I can't yet say about the ENUM working correctly
> Version 1.4.13 does work, and others may be testing 1.4.17 before I get to.
> As to drivers, I have never had a problem with CentOS working with most 
> any hardware I have installed in on.
> First version 3, then 5, other have used CentOS 4
> All the Red Hat variants seem to be the most trouble free, though users 
> on the Asterisk users list have reported more difficulties with Fedora 
> than CentOS.
> Specifically what drivers are you missing or concerned with?
>
> The other Linux distros, such as Debian and Madriva and ??? have their 
> own way of doing things and are not for the Linux novice,  in my opinion
> Asterisk has specific hardware it will work with for the analog and 
> T1/E1 cards, and some Digium hardware will not work with boards that do 
> not follow strictly the PCI 2.2 interface. If you MB has any ISA slots, 
> the TDM400 and others with the TigerJet chip set will not work, and some 
> motherboards that say PCI 2.2 don't work either.
> The Sangoma A200 is much more forgiving, though installing their 
> software is more difficult. Sangoma has always responded and fixed 
> problems though, so their support is great.
> I have used CentOS, a TDM400, and Asterisk 1.2 on Pentium III 
> motherboards successfully, and even have one CNET user on RH9, an X100 
> card and a single board computer with an AMD K2-300 and a 10 Gig hard 
> drive that I support remotely. He needed something cheap.
>
> Hope this answers some of your questions.
>
> John Novack
>
>