Re: Using mISDN with recent asterisk and Debian

Hi Simone,

On 18.08.2017 13:30, Simone Piccardi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm searching some info on how to use mISDN with recent version of Asterisk (14.6.0) and Debian (stretch). I have a supported HFC card (that is working with the old mISDN before 2.6).
> 
> I followed this HOWTO, https://www.misdn.eu/wiki/Howto_for_Debian/ but now i do not understand how to use it.
> 
> I suppose that chan_misdn that's still distributed with asterisk is not the right way, because i cannot find any reference to misdn-init init script and /etc/misdn-init.conf configuration file (still referenced in /etc/asterisk/misdn.conf).
> 
> From what's listed in the wiki it seems that it is referring to LCR, but I need to use my ISDN only in TE mode, to receive calls from my provider, and don't need to use it to make call to ISDN phones.
> 
> Anyway I tried to build LCR using git://git.misdn.eu/lcr.git/, but I got an error on ./configure
> 
> configure: error: in `/usr/src/asterisk-14.6.0/lcr':
> configure: error: No ast_tone_zone_sound, confused...
> 
> and all I could found about it was in a German forum, with a reference to an unreachable gmane message for a workaround.
> 
> So my question are:
> 
> 1) can I still use asterisk chan_misdn, and if yes how I do configure my card (where I put that was in /etc/misdn-init.conf and misdn-init?)

Asterisk chan_misdn is for an (obsolete) mISDN version 1.
Current, in-kernel mISDN is an incompatible version 2.

> 2) if I need to use LCR, which version I need to use that give no configuration error or what workaround I need to apply to try to build it?

Haven't used LCR for few years so can't really help here but from what I
see Asterisk 14.6 defines ast_tone_zone_sound in asterisk/indications.h
(where LCR's configure.ac expects it) so maybe the issue here is something
like missing asterisk-dev or a similar package?

> 3) I'm looking in the wrong direction and I should use something other than mISDN?

I'm currently using successfully mISDN (v2) in a TE mode with Asterisk 11.23 via chan_capi.

From what I can see current chan_capi supports up to and including
Asterisk 13 so some changes may be needed for Asterisk 14 but you can always
try it as-is.
 
> Regards
> Simone

Best regards,
Maciej