Re: [gentoo-user] ISDN problems

[Mick]

On Tuesday 22 June 2010 23:23:53 Alex Schuster wrote:

> But /etc/init.d/capi fails to start, when calling 'capiinit activate':
> ERROR: cannot open /dev/capi20 nor /dev/isdn/capi20 - No such device or
> address (6)
>
> This file is existing:
> crw------- 1 root root 191, 20 22. Jun 23:35 /dev/capi20
>
> Changing permissions does not help.
>
> I also tried the other kernel modules, net-dialup/fritzcapi, but that does
> not build either - it does not find linux/auconf.h. Huh? I have this in
> /usr/lib64/klibc/include/ only. On other Gentoo systems, this should be in
> the kernel's include directory. Maybe 2.6.33 is too new for that?
>
> Then I tried mISDN, and guess what, it also does not compile at all. There
> is a bug report (#265581), but its over a year old without progress.
>
> So I downloaded mISDN and built it according to http://www.misdn.org/,
> which seemed to work. But I get the same capi error. So it's probably not
> a problem with the ISDN card kernel driver, but with the CAPI setup.
>
> I'm out of ideas. What's wrong with /dev/capi20?

Should the ownership be different than root:root perhaps?  e.g. have you tried 
root:tty, or root:dialup, or root:uucp, or whichever group is appropriate for 
ISDN?

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Regards,
Mick