OpenVox B800P User Manual

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OpenVox-Best Cost Effective Asterisk Cards

OpenVox B800P User Manual for mISDN

Written by: James.zhu

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Date:15/10/2007

Version: 0.01

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深圳开源通信有限公司

OpenVox-Best Cost Effective Asterisk Cards

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Overview………………………………………………………………… 4
Chapter 2 Card Installation and Configuration……………………………… 6

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Chapter 1 Overview

1. What is B800P

B800P is a PCI 2.2 compliant card supporting 8 BRI S/T interfaces, with an onboard
multi NT power feeding circuits. NT/TE mode can be individually configured on each
of 8 ports.

B800P can be implemented for building Open Source Asterisk based systems such as
ISDN PBX and VoIP gateway.

Target Applications:
High Performance ISDN PC Cards
ISDN PABX for BRI
VoIP Gateways
ISDN LAN Routers for BRI
ISDN Least Cost Routers for BRI
ISDN Test Equipment for BRI

Main Features:
Eight integrated S/T interfaces
ITU-T I.430 and TBR 3 certified and S/T ISDN supporting in TE and NT mode
Integrated PCI bus interface (Spec.2.2) for 3.3V and 5V signal environments
DTMF detection on all B-channels
Multiparty audio conferences bridge
Onboard power feeding for 8 NT Ports
PCM bus connectors daisy chaining
Each of the 8 ports can be individually configured for TE or NE mode
Full software and hardware compatible with Junghanns.NET™ Bristuff driver and
mISDN© driver
Application ready: use Asterisk® to build your IP-PBX/Voicemail system
RoHS compliant
Certificates: CE, FCC

2. What is Asterisk:

The Definition of Asterisk is described as follow:
Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on

Linux, BSD,Windows (emulated)
and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does
voice over IP in four protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based

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telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.

Figure 1: Asterisk Setup

Source (http://www.siriusit.co.uk/uploads/images/consulting/asteriskSetup.gif)

Asterisk provides Voicemail services with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive
Voice Response, Call Queuing. It has support for three-way calling, caller ID
services,

ADSI, IAX, SIP, H.323 (as both client and gateway), MGCP (call manager

only) and

SCCP/Skinny(voip-info.org).

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Chapter 2 Card Installation and Configuration

1. Hardware Installation and Setup

1) Configure the Jumper Settings

Please refer jumper setting for details. To install B800P, user should
follow these steps.

A. Setting Card ID Switch

User should take care of the card id switch, if the user wants to
install more than one cards of B800P in one pc. The user should follow
these produces:

1. The card id of the first card must be set to 0, and the second card

should be set to 1, and so on.

2. The first card is a card that will be initialized (i.e installing

driver) first when system is booting.

3. At most of cases, Linux will initialize PCI devices according to

PCI slot order. The slot is nearest to the CPU will be initialized
first; the slot at the far end from CPU will be initialized at last.
That is to say that if user has more than one cards of B800P in p c ,
the one is nearest to CPU should be set to card id 0.

4. For more details about Card ID, please check F&Q section.

B. Adjusting Termination of S/T Interface (100 ohm)

1. If a port works on NT mode, user should set jumper to CONNECT (ON).

2. If a port work on TE mode, Theoretically it should be to OPEN(OFF),

but user might connect to some non-standard isdn terminal
equipments that do not have terminal resistors, for such equipments,
you should set it to CONNECT(ON).

C. Power Feeding Connector

These jumpers control whether the card will feed power to the external
isdn terminal. User should adjust accordingly from the following:

 If the port works on TE mode, user MUST set the jumper to

OPEN(OFF)

 If this port will work on NT mode, the ISDN terminal requires

ISDN power supply, user should set the jumper to CONNECT(ON).

ISDN terminal does not require ISDN power supply, user should
set the jumper to OPEN(OFF).

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D. Power Feeding Input

If one of the eight power feeding connectors is CONNECT(ON), user
should connect a D-type connecter from pc power supply to this jack,
the D-type connecter is used to provide power to CDROM ahd 3.5”HDD.

E. Power Supply Selection

Some latest model PCs do not provide +5V on the PCI slots. If user uses

those kinds of PCs, user has to set the jumper to 3.3v.

F. PCM IN/PCM OUT

These are for future usages.

2) Power off PC, remembering unplug the AC power cable

3) Insert B800P card into a 3.3v or 5.0v PCI slot

4) Plug the hard disk power supply cable( D style) to power feeding input jack

if needing providing power to external equipments, please refer jumper
setting section for the detail

5) Plug back the AC power cable, and power on PC

If user wants to know the details about hardware configuration of B800P, please refer
hardware setting section.

2. Software Installation and Setup

B800P supports original mISDN driver form
http://www.misdn.org/index.php/Installing_mISDN. Customers can download it
from that URL. There are few steps to install the driver.

1) Checking the B800P hardware by command: lspci -vvvvvvvvv

2) Checking the supporting packages

Note that if there is no kernel source in the system, user should install
them. User can run yum again:

yum install kernel-devel

`. If user uses this
command yum will install the sources for your current version of the kernel.
It is time to check for the availability of some other packages:

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rpm -q bison
rpm -q bison-devel
rpm -q ncurses
rpm -q ncurses-devel
rpm -q zlib
rpm -q zlib-devel
rpm -q openssl
rpm -q openssl-devel
rpm -q gnutls-devel
rpm -q gcc
rpm -q gcc-c++
If any of those packages are not installed install them by using yum

yum install bison
yum install bison-devel
yum install ncurses
yum install ncurses-devel
yum install zlib
yum install zlib-devel
yum install openssl
yum install openssl-devel
yum install gnutls-devel
yum install gcc
yum install gcc-c++

3) Downloading, unzipping and compiling driver

A. Download the stable version of mISDN, mISDNuser, chan_mISDN and asterisk

drivers from http://www.misdn.org/index.php/Installing_mISDN, and copy
the tar file to /usr/src/:

Here， we are using mISDN-1_1_2 and mISDNuser_1_1_2. User can get more
details from mISDN.org.

B. Download OpenVox patch called hfc_multi.c from

www.openvox.com.cn.

It contains a patched hfc_multi.c file; user overwrites the original
hfc_multi.c file with the new hfc_multi.c under
/usr/src//usr/src/mISDN-1_1_2/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN:

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C. Make links with kernel source:

ln -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.el5-i686/ /usr/src/linux-2.6
Here, under /usr/src there is kernel source, user must create link
linux-2.6 under /usr/src/. There are many files under /usr/src/, please
check:

D. Compiling mISDN, mISDNuser,chan_mISDN and asterisk

cd /usr/src/mISDN-1_1_2
make
make install

std2kern

cd /usr/src/mISDN-1_1_2
make
make install

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cd /usr/src/chan_misdn
make
make install

cd /usr/src/asterisk-1.4.11

./configure
make menuselect

Now you should enable chan_misdn in the Channel Driver Section
and reinstall asterisk with "make install".

After those procedures you should have the current mISDN
releases installed and the current chan_misdn with asterisk.

E. Modifying and loading modules for mISDN

Execute: mISDN scan

Please take note here:

1) B800P uses different chip, the setting will be different from

B200P/400P. The command mISDN start will generate an incorrect
misdn.conf under /etc. To solve that problem, user has to edit the
mISDN from /usr/sbin directory. Please make sure the options with
different setting modes is meet the requirements.

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For example, if the port 1 is set into NT mode, others are TE mode,
go to line 145 and add one line in the mISDN and comment the above
line. The edition is shown as follow:
The type should be 0x08 // for B800P with 1 NT mode and 7 TE mode
The layermask should be: 0x3,0xf,0xf,0xf,0xf,0xf,0xf,0xf

2) Starting mISDN:

Execute: mSIDN start

vi /etc/mISDN.conf, the part of it looks like this:

Execute: load chan_misdn.so in asterisk console

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The misdn.conf and extensions.conf are shown as follow:

The console shows that user calls to SIP and makes outbound call by using
ISDN ISDN phone:

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Notes:
Test environments:
OS: Centos 5
Kernel version: 2.6.18-8.15
Asterisk version: Asterisk-1.4.11
mISDN version: mISDN-1_1_2
Hardware：OpenVox B800P

If user wants to check hardware setting, ping assignments and references, please
check from: http://www.openvox.com.cn/downloadsFile/1194838660.pdf

Some Concerns:

1) LEDs will turn into green and blink if the drivers are loaded.

2) Misdn show channels commands show nothing.

3) When calls coming, the LED will be turned into green status for very short while

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