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Contents
Gener
al
Safety
Instruct
ions
....................
.........................
.........................
..................
4
Test
En
vironm
e
nt
s
...................
.........................
.........................
.....................
............. 5
Ch
apte
r
1
Ove
r
vie
w ..........
.........................
......................
........................
.................... 6
1.1
Wh
at
is
Asterisk
....................
.........................
........................
......................
..... 6
1.2
Wh
at
is
A400E .............................
.........................
........................
....................
7
Ch
apte
r
2
Hardware
Setup .....................
.........................
........................
.................
10
2.1
Power
supply
.....................
.........................
.........................
.....................
....... 10
2.2
Sl
ot
compatibility .............................
.........................
........................
.............. 10
2.3
Ti
ming
cab
l
e
......................
.........................
........................
......................
....... 11
2.4
FXO
an
d
FXS
m
odules .....................
........................
.........................
............. 1
1
2.5
Har
dware
set
u
p
procedure
....................
.........................
.........................
........
12
Ch
apte
r 3
Softwar
e
In
stallatio
n and
Configura
tion ..........
.........................
............
14
3.1
Downlo
ad
......................
.........................
.........................
.....................
........... 14
3.2
Inst
a
llation........................
.........................
.........................
.........................
.... 15
3.3
Configur
atio
n
....................
.........................
.........................
.....................
....... 19
Ch
apte
r
4
Re
feren
ce
....................
.........................
.........................
.....................
....... 26
App
endix
A
Specificati
o
n
s
..................
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........................
.....................
27
App
endix
B
PI
N
Assignm
ents .................
.........................
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28

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General Safety Instructions
CAUTION
1.
The computers that have A400E card installed must comply with
the country
’
s
specific safety
regulation
s.
2.
Only service person
nel s
hou
ld
go to i
nstall A400E card.
3.
Before installing A400E card, please unplug the power cord and
remove the cover from your PC
.
4.
For avoiding personal injuries and damages to your machine and
A400E card, make sure bracket of the card is secured to the PC
’
s
chass
is
grou
nd b
y fa
stening the
card with
a sc
rew
.
5.
Elec
trical Sur
ges
, ESD
are very destructive to the equipment
.
To
avoid it, make sure there is a low impedance discharge path from
your computer to chassis ground.
6.
To reduce the risk of damage or injury, please follow all steps or
procedures as instructed.

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Test Environments
CentOS-5.6
Kernel version: 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5
DAHDI: dahdi-linux-complete-current
Asterisk:
1.8.0
Hardware:
Op
enV
o
x
A400E

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# make ins
tall
# make sam
ples
"
make samples
"
will install the standard
sample
configuration
file in the directory /etc/asterisk. As a
freshma
n,
you s
houl
d p
erform ma
ke s
ampl
es, that is to s
ay
,
it is unnecessary to perform make samples every time. Because once
perform
ed, i
t
wi
l
l
co
ve
r
the old sam
ple confi
gur
ati
on
fi
l
es
you
hav
e
installed.
3.3
Configur
ation
1. D
riv
er loading
After co
mpil
in
g
and i
nstalli
ng
DA
HD
I
and Asterisk, please load the
driver by running:
# modp
robe d
ahdi
# modprobe wctdm opermode=CHINA
# dahdi_genconf
After running
"
modprob
e
dahdi
"
or
"
modprob
e w
ctdm
opermode=CHINA
"
, there is not any indication
i
nformation
disp
la
yed i
f loaded normall
y
and
s
ucc
ess
ful
l
y.

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"
wctdm
"
is the driver module name of A400E.
"
opermode
"
appli
es
to
FXO port and i
s
i
nva
l
i
d
for F
XS
po
rt, and you are all
owed
to take place
of
"
CHINA
"
to o
ther mod
e
name whi
c
h is avai
lable
in the fil
e:
../dahdi-linux-XX/linux/drivers/dahdi/fxo_modules.h
If there i
s any erro
r, pl
ease
trace the cause. Unti
l
al
l erro
rs are clear up,
you c
ould exe
cute
"
dahdi_genconf
"
again, and then go to the next step.
By running
"
dahdi_genconf
"
,
it
wi
ll generate /etc
/dahd
i/system.
co
nf
and
etc/asterisk/dahdi-channels.conf automatically. Checking whether the
generated fil
es
in
formation
agrees wi
th
your hardware setup
,
if not,
you
sho
ul
d modify to your
sp
ecifi
c
requi
rem
ents.
Do not forget to c
onfir
m
dahdi-channels.conf is included in chan_dahdi.conf, if not, run command:
# echo "#include
dahdi-ch
annels.conf" >>
/etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.conf
FXO ports use FXS signa
l
i
ng,
wh
i
l
e
FXS
po
rts
ado
pt FXO signal
i
ng.
A
part of
system.conf
wh
i
ch
i
s
one
of the basi
c chan
nel co
nfi
gu
rat
i
on
fi
l
es
is displayed.

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# Span 1: WCTDM/4 "Wildcard TDM400P REV E/F Board 5" (MASTER)
fxoks=1
fxoks=2
fxsks=3
fxsks=4
# Global data
loadzone
=
us
defaultzon
e
=
us
Figur
e
6 A pa
rt of sys
te
m.conf
2. Country mode modification
In ord
er
to mat
ch
your co
untry
pattern,
you ne
ed to c
hang
e
paramet
ers
l
oadzo
ne and d
efau
l
tzone
to yo
ur co
untry
. Fo
r e
xam
ple,
your s
ystem i
s
i
n
CHINA, you would like them change to:
loadzone = cn
defaultzone = cn
S
o
me
zo
ned
ata i
s avail
ab
le
in the fi
le
.. /dahdi-XX/tools/zonedata.c, you can refer to it to match
your c
ountry mod
e.
Mean
whi
le
,
you a
lso need to mod
i
fy
another parameter which is in file
/etc/asterisk/indications.conf.
country=cn

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A
part o
f fi
l
e
/etc/asteri
sk/d
ahdi
-channel
s.
co
nf
i
s
sho
wed
as b
el
ow
.
(Modification, if it is not agree with the hardware setup)
span 1: WCTDM/4 "Wildcard TDM400P REV E/F Board 5"
(MASTER)
;;; line="1 WCTDM/4/0 FXOKS"
signalling=fxo_ks
callerid="Channel 1" <4001>
mailbox=40
01
group=5
context=from-internal
channel => 1
callerid=
mailbox=
group=
context=default
;;; line="2 WCTDM/4/1 FXOKS"
signalling=fxo_ks
callerid="Channel 2" <4002>
mailbox=40
02
group=5
context=from-internal
channel => 2
callerid=
mailbox=
group=
context=default
;;; line="3 WCTDM/4/2 FXSKS"
signalling=fxs_ks
callerid=asreceived
group=0
context=from-pstn
channel => 3
callerid=
group=
context=default
;;; line="4 WCTDM/4/3 FXSKS"
signalling=fxs_ks
callerid=asreceived
group=0
context=from-pstn
channel => 4
callerid=
group=
context=default
Figure 7 A part of dahdi-channels.conf

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Chapter 4
Reference
www.openvox.cn
www.digium.com
www.asterisk.org
www.voip-info.org
www.asteriskguru.com
Tips
Any quest
i
ons during i
nstall
ation
please co
nsult i
n our forum or
look up
for an
swers fro
m
the fo
l
lowi
ng
webs
ites:
Forum
wiki

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Appendix A
Specifications
•
Weight and size
Wei
ght:
89g
(3.1
4o
z)
Size:
13.8×11.1×1.
8cm
(5.43×4.
37×0.71
in
ch)
•
Interfaces
PCI-E B
us: Be
co
mpati
ble w
i
th
PCI
-E ×1, ×2, ×4, ×8, ×16
Power Supply Connect: 12V 4-pin connector (When any FXS modules
are installed)
Local Loop Access: Four industry standard RJ-11 ports
•
Environment
Temperature:
0
~50°C
(Op
erati
on)
-
40
~125°C
(Sto
rage)
Humi
d
ity:
10
~90%
NON-CO
NDEN
SI
NG
•
Pow
er co
nsum
pti
on
Voltage: 3.3/12V, 3REN
Maximum power dissipation: 2.06W/11.6W
•
Hard
ware a
nd s
oftware requi
rement
s
RAM
128
+
MB
CP
U
800+
MHZ
Li
nux kernel
2.4.X or
2.6.X

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Appendix B
PIN
Assignment
s
Either 4-pin or 6-pin RJ11 port is compatible with A400E, let
’
s illustrate
pin assig
nm
ent
s
of RJ1
1 port by
the
fol
l
owi
ng
tabl
es.
4-pin RJ11 port
4-pin
RJ11
por
t
P
IN
Desc
r
ip
tion
1
2
3
4
1
Not
used
2 Tip
3 Ring
4
Not
used
6-pin RJ11 port
6-pin
RJ11
por
t
P
IN
Desc
r
ip
tion
1
6
1
Not
used
2
Not
used
3 Tip
4 Ring
5
Not
used
6
Not
used