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Hi there! |
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I am having big trouble setting up ISDN. I'm a long-time ISDN user, I need |
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this for connecting to some remote systems that do not have an internet |
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connection. I always used my server for this, but due to a sudden |
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breakdown of phone+dsl on that machine (which is far away, I have no |
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physical access), I tried setting up ISDN on my machine here. BTW, all |
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machines on which I have set up ISDN have AVM Fritz PCI cards. |
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Trouble, big trouble. Normally, it should be just a matter of emerging |
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fcpci for the fcpci.ko kernel module, emerge capi4k-utils, edit a line in |
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/etc/capi.conf to define my card, then create a little config in |
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/etc/ppp/peers, and set the PAP login data in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. But |
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that does not work now. |
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net-dialup/fcpci does not compile, but I found a patch on bugs.gentoo.org, |
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and the module seems to load file. Apart from a message ("IRQ 20/fcpci: |
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IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs"), but I saw thsi in some |
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other howtos, so it's probably not a problem. |
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But /etc/init.d/capi fails to start, when calling 'capiinit activate': |
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ERROR: cannot open /dev/capi20 nor /dev/isdn/capi20 - No such device or |
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address (6) |
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This file is existing: |
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crw------- 1 root root 191, 20 22. Jun 23:35 /dev/capi20 |
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Changing permissions does not help. |
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I also tried the other kernel modules, net-dialup/fritzcapi, but that does |
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not build either - it does not find linux/auconf.h. Huh? I have this in |
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/usr/lib64/klibc/include/ only. On other Gentoo systems, this should be in |
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the kernel's include directory. Maybe 2.6.33 is too new for that? |
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Then I tried mISDN, and guess what, it also does not compile at all. There |
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is a bug report (#265581), but its over a year old without progress. |
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So I downloaded mISDN and built it according to http://www.misdn.org/, |
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which seemed to work. But I get the same capi error. So it's probably not |
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a problem with the ISDN card kernel driver, but with the CAPI setup. |
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I'm out of ideas. What's wrong with /dev/capi20? |
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Wonko |