Hello,
I'm trying to get an ISDN card (AVM Fritz!Card PCI) to work under RedHat
6. After messing with the stuff for quite a few hours, I still can't get
it to work. Help will be appreciated.
There are two problems with the stock RH6.0:
1. RedHat doesn't distribute an isdn4k-utils RPM package, and I was
unable to compile isdn4k-utils on the RH6 system. I tried 4 different
versions, including the 3.0beta pseudo-release and CVS snapshots
(ftp.suse.com) from yesterday and from March. They all exhibit #include
problems (which I managed to fix) and automake/autoconf problems (which
I couldn't). Rumor has it that building isdn4k-utils on RH6 requires
paganic rites involving downgrading egcs and patching sources. /RIGHT/.
Finally, I found and installed a linux4k-utils 3.0beta RPM built by
someone who seems to know his stuff (
http://www.terminator.net/pub/trolldom/dist/RPMS/i386/isdn4k-utils-3.0beta2-2.i386.rpm).
So far so good.
2. The isdn2linux source in all kernels up to 2.2.10 (including RedHat's
2.2.5 builds) is very old, and does not include support for the AVM
Fritz!Card PCI. Therefore, a kernel rebuild with a newer isdn4linux is
necessary. I downloaded the latest CVS snapshot (they don't bother to
mark any particular version as stable) and rebuilt the kernel. No
special problems. 'modprobe hisax type=27' works, and the card is
recognized.
At this point everything should have worked. Alas, all the isdn4k-utils
binaries report a version mismatch with isdn4linux -- it claims the
kernel module is too NEW (uses version '5' of some struct, whereas
isdn4k-utils uses version '4'). And it advises to get a newer version of
isdn4k-utils -- which, as we recall, is impossible to build. I tried
recompiling the kernel with a version of isdn4linux that's a few months
old, but the problem persists.
Is there any sane way to get an up-to-date and stable ISDN support?
These guys seem to think that all ISDN users are German expert
programmers living in their CVS tree. Sheesh. No wonder Linus vetoed
merging the new isdn4linux into the 2.2 kernel.
Regards,
Eran Tromer
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