Chapter 2 Software Installation and Configuration
Before installing the software, user should have some fundamental knowledge of Linux.
Some commands are needed such as cd, tar and vi. Let’s go through the steps:
1. Hardware Installation and Setup
1. Power off your pc, remember unplug the AC power cable
2. Insert A400P/A400E into a 3.3V or 5.0V PCI slot or PCI express slot
3. If the card equips FXS modules (green color), plugging the power supply cable
(D style) into A400P. If you want to use the timing cable (A400E ver1.1 or
higher version) with pri cards, please make sure the timing cable is plugged
into output on A400E, and timing cable is connected into the input on other
card, you can refer more detail in this link:
http://bbs.openvox.cn/viewthread.php?tid=874&extra=page%3D
4. Plug back the AC power cable, and power on PC.
2. Software Installation and Setup
1) Checking the A400P/A400E hardware by command: lspci –vvvv
From figure 2, user can see that that one device called communication
controller be found.
Figure 2: Hardware detection
2) Install supporting packages
TO install A400P/A400E, user needs install the following packages before
compiling asterisk and zaptel driver:
kernel-devel
zlib
zlib-devel
openssl
openssl-devel
3) Download zaptel and asterisk
