Glad to have you guys here

Fun Guy!!!!

I was talking about redfone though..
as how to recompile zaptel or now that the redfone patches are included in 2.4 if there are any rpm's for TB 2.2

I've done Trixbox 2.2 and 2.4 installations with the redfone, and here's how it typically goes:

Install Trixbox, as referenced above. We all know how to do that, right? ;)

You will need to install the patched multi-frame TDMoE Zaptel package. You can get this at: http://support.red-fone.com/downloads/zaptel/. I have used the 1.2.21 package on Trixbox 2.2 and the 1.4.8 one on Trixbox 2.4.

To do this:

cd /usr/src
wget http://support.red-fone.com/downloads/zaptel/zaptel-1.x.x.tar.gz
tar -xzvf zaptel-1.x.x.tar.gz
cd zaptel-1.*

Do the usual make / make install variant (you will need a ./configure script first on 1.4 versions of the zaptel driver):

./configure
make
make install

Obviously, you'll have to kill some existing zaptel modules using rrmod or give the system a kick after the install.

If you are running Trixbox 2.4, you can simply download the fonulator utility from http://support.red-fone.com/downloads/fonulator to your /usr/local/bin directory and make executable with chmod +x.

If you are running Trixbox 2.2, there is a glibc library error that will cause you to need to compile from scratch. This can be done with this file: http://support.red-fone.com/downloads/fonulator/fonulator-1.4.1-1.... This process has changed since I did it last, so your mileage may vary. Needless to say, when you custom compile, you should be able to make it work.

Also, for Trixbox 2.2 and 2.4, changing your startup script is absolutely essential, though you may want to turn off everything (as I state below), until your config is solid. Check out the configuration script at: http://support.red-fone.com/downloads/zaptel/zaptel-redfone. It works great.

From there, you need to create and configure /etc/redfone.conf as well as zaptel.conf, and zapata.conf.

This is well documented here (as is most of the rest of this info), so I won't go into the details:

http://www.red-fone.com/Products/fonebridge2/Installation/

Things I've learned:

* While you're getting your configuration worked out, it is definitely easier to turn off startup execution of Asterisk and Zaptel. To do this, use the chkconfig --del asterisk / zaptel. You will manually execute the following sequence to bring it up:

fonulator -v
modprobe zaptel
modprobe ztd_ethmf
ztcfg –vvvvvvf
zttool (to verify span, if necessary)
asterisk

* Be careful about the configuration on managed switches when you connect your Redfone to the Trixbox server. Do not route the VLAN. Turn off CDP and spanning tree, etc.. and anything that may add data to the packets.

Hope that helps!

-Josh