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Inbound Routing (Freepbx)

If you have upgraded from freepbx 2.4 to freepbx 2.5 and now have problems with your inbound routing not working then read on. If you have callerid inbound routing for some of your calls you may have found that it has stopped working since upgrading to freepbx 2.5. After some testing this is because the [...]

BT Caller ID

after much playing around with settings the callerid has been a bit hit and miss it would work some times and then not others. So for around 60% of calls there would be no callerid. Fix for this was to patch chan_zap.c to ignore rings before CID is complete (about a 1 sec proccess) however, [...]

Asterisk 1.2.24 and Zaptel 1.2.20.1 and Addons 1.2.7 and Libpri 1.2.5 and Sounds 1.2.1

If you are running on an old version of asterisk @ home then this is how you update asterisk to the latest version and also zaptel PLEASE NOTE: If you are using the fax part or a@h then this will kill the fax side as it will not know about the modules #Asterisk Update cd [...]

Asterisk 1.2.18 and Zaptel 1.2.17.1 and Addons 1.2.6 and Libpri 1.2.4

If you are running on an old version of asterisk @ home then this is how you update asterisk to the latest version and also zaptel

Asterisk 1.2.17 and Zaptel 1.2.16 and Addons 1.2.5 and Libpri 1.2.4

If you are running on an old version of asterisk @ home then this is how you update asterisk to the latest version and also zaptel

Private: BT Caller ID

after much playing around with settings the callerid has been a bit hit and miss it would work some times and then not others. So for around 60% of calls there would be no callerid. Fix for this was to patch chan_zap.c to ignore rings before CID is complete (about a 1 sec proccess) however, [...]

Recover Root Password – Asterisknow Dist

reboot to the cd use "linux rescue" when prompted for boot options chroot /mnt/sysimage passwd reboot and have access to the system.

Asterisk wont start after Cent-os 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL update

If you run an yum -y update then it will download version 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL If you are keeping an old a@h system updated then this upgrade will require a reboot and you to then issue from the command line a rebuild_zaptel This should solve your problem.   Once you have been running the system for a little [...]

Cent-os UPDATE

Just ran a yum -y update on my asterisk box today that is based on the asterisk@home version 2.8 and there was a mega download. I can confirm that this has caused no problems with the box and its still running fine

Asterisk wont start after cent os upgrade to 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL

After running yum -y update you will find that asterisk will not restart try the following rebuild_zaptel This should solve your problem. Looks like in this version they have now sorted the spinlock problem