A comment on the asterisk packaging and a question

[Kilian Krause]

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Hi Ralph,

Am Montag, den 21.03.2005, 11:17 +0100 schrieb Ralph Aichinger:
> Hello!
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> Thanks for packaging Asterisk and related packages
> for Debian.=20
>=20
> One comment though:=20
> For the beginner starting out it is really hard to
> find out what packages exactly are needed, what
> patches have been applied etc.

there should be none needed so far. At least none i know of. (yes mysql
stuff is still in the pipeline, but that's not a "patch")

> I wanted to use a NT-Mode driver for hfs-pci cards,
> and it took me quite some time to figure out that
> basically all of bristuff is already packaged for
> Debian, and in which packages.

*g* yes. That's only due to recent versions and not yet in testing even.

> IMHO there should be a short description of all
> the applied patches and related packages in=20
> README.Debian.

The bristuff/zaphfc stuff should be noted there IIRC. But if you have a
proposal how a wording would be to guide you (as newbie) properly, i'm
all ears to hear about it.

> To my question:
>=20
> How do I correctly compile the zaptel modules
> from zaptel-source?

hehe, yes, that's still a somewhat tough one. basically make-kpkg should
work (which it doesn't properly yet for zaphfc) and maybe
module-assistant too. The trick that should take you there is going
to /usr/src/modules/zaptel and running
make KSRC=3D/usr/src/linux-yourvserion/

after that you can most easily copy zaptel.ko and zaphfc/zaphfc.ko
into /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/ (which you may or may not yet have,
just mkdir it)
Then running "depmod -a" and "modprobe zaphfc modes=3D1" should do the
trick.

I'm still planning on sorting this a bit out (or wait for Santiago to do
it for me *g*), but it's a bit tedious.

--=20
Best regards,
 Kilian

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