ISDN-problem

[Michael Vogt]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:07:29PM +0100, Markus Amersdorfer wrote:
> > This appears to be a udev problem. The needed device nodes are not
> > created in /dev. After a boot you can add them with:
> > $ sudo sh -c 'for i in isdnctrl0 ippp0 isdninfo;do ln -s /.dev/$i
> > /dev/$i;done'$ sudo ln -s /dev/isdnctrl0 /dev/isdnctrl
> 
> While this (at least somewhat) solves the above-mentioned problem
> (thanks!), I encountered a new one already:
> 
>   root at ubuntu:/home/max # /etc/init.d/isdnutils start
>   Starting ISDN services: interfacesCan't open /dev/isdnctrl or
>   /dev/isdn/isdnctrl: No such device ippp0 failed.
>    ipppd.
>   root at ubuntu:/home/max # Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support.
>   Check whether you configured at least the ippp0 device!

Have you tried to load the ppp_generic, ppp_synctty module? 
 
> You can see there's still some part of the overall process complaining
> about /dev/isdnctrl not being available (which I don't understand, as I
> created the corresponding symlink).

Have you checked with "dmesg" if there are any errors when the driver
is loaded? 

> The only solution to this I know of is to compile the kernel anew and
> include the ISDN- and PPP-support in the kernel (instead of providing
> the functionality as modules).
> Or is there another way to get this thing working?

Please try to load ppp_generic, ppp_synctty. It should be possible to
make all this work without recompiling the kernel :)
 
> > To get capi working you need "libcapi20-3" and "pppdcapiplugin" (the
> > later is not on the CD IIRC). I attached a mini-howto to make it work
> > with those two packages.
> 
> Thanks, it seems to be "easy". Though, as I said, Ubuntu Warty comes
> without CAPI support, and using isdnutils is just fine for me (as long
> as it works ;) ...).
> But then: This might solve my problems totally ... I think I'll download
> the CAPI-stuff and try it ... I'll tell you if it worked, as soon as I
> find out anything about it ...

Yes, please tell me if it works for you. mISDN is the future.

> > P.S. What isdn card do you have btw?
> 
>   AVM Audiovisuelles MKTG & Computer System GmbH Fritz!PCI v2.0 ISDN
>   (rev 01)

This one needs the hisax_fcpcipnp driver, correct?

bye,
 Michael

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