Installing A Rhino Card? Updating zaptel? Read this.....

You may or may not have noticed the Rhino RPMS in the trixbox repo were a little dated and more recently they were removed. Currently there is several versions of zaptel floating around in trixbox installs depending on your updates. We realized it was impractical to be in the yum repo as we were since things would break depending on the zaptel version. Our interim solution was to have people pull the RPMS direct from us which had mixed results. This time allowed us to develop our back end however and with any luck will help us attempt to provide "0 day" support for zaptel upgrades.

The Solution:

We had the trixbox folks remove our kernel modules and put up a package called rhino-util.
You can install this with: yum -y install rhino-util
This will put a script on you system called "setup-rhino" which detects your software versions and installs the appropriate package. This install system works with all trixbox versions 2.4 and above. Unfortunately 1.x and 2.2.x versions are not supported as they are end of life and we can not guarantee stability on these systems. For users of these earlier trixboxes we recommend a source build.

FIRST TIME INSTALLS:
Install your rhino card
Stop asterisk: amportal stop
Get the rhino-util: yum -y install rhino-util
Run setup-rhino: setup-rhino
Configure your zaptel and zapata via genzaptelcnf or by hand
Load the drivers in to zaptel: ztcfg -vvvv
Start Asterisk: amportal start

UPGRADING ZAPTEL/ASTERISK:

Remove your rhino drivers: yum remove rhino-$(uname -r)
Stop asterisk: amportal stop
Get the rhino-util: yum -y install rhino-util
Update your Asterisk/Zaptel (at your own risk)
Run setup-rhino: setup-rhino
Your existing configs should be ok
Load the drivers in to zaptel: ztcfg -vvvv
Start Asterisk: amportal start

We have done our best to get all existing software combinations in to our back end. If your combination does not exist you can email us with the version output from setup rhino and we will work to get your scenario installed.