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These instructions will show how we’ve successfully installed Asterisk on a Fedora Core 3 Linux Distribution with a HFC isdn pci card. We’re not linux gurus so if you have any suggestion on this installation feel free to drop us a line. This tutorial is protected by Creative Commons license.

Our goals:

• Connect 5 Phones together with their own extension
• Route incoming calls to selected extension.
• Manage our 2-lines ISDN
• Avoid expensive hardware or software
• Integrate personal voicemail
• Integrate fax support

Hardware setup

• A rackmount Machine with AMD Athlon Xp 1800, 512 Mb Ram, Asus A7V880 Motherboard with integrated lan, a 15 Gb ST HDD, a vintage video card, 52x Lg Cd-Rom, and floppy drive. (A sort of recycled machine)
• This Digicom ISDN HFC Card
• 5 GrandStream Budgetone 100

Software Setup

• Fedora Core 3 iso images: disk 1 and 3 only
• Various software from the internet (about 70 mb to download)
• Off course, latest Stable Asterisk

# # # # # # Fedora Setup # # # # # #
Download from a mirror Fedora Core 3 only disk 1 and 3, burn them and perform a minimal installation with automatic disk partition (if you don’t care about the content of your disk, delete all previous partition.).

NOTE: During installation you must provide valid network informations in order to follow these instructions.

Now we’re going to set up the machine in order to install Asterisk and all of its components: login as root and follow these steps (you can copy/paste the commands in your terminal but read carefully what they do)

Import a public gpg key:
rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

Update installed packages (including kernel, libraries etc):
yum update

If you have anything else to do, it’s the right moment, this operation will take many time, according to your internet connection.

Now reboot your machine, it will boot with the updated kernel (in this case 2.6.10-1.770_FC3) you can test it with:

[root@hermes ~]# uname -r
2.6.10-1.770_FC3


Now we’ll install some required software and we’ll do some kernel related operation:

ALL these packages MUST BE installed
yum install qt-devel
yum install rpm-build
yum install gcc
yum install gcc-c++
yum install redhat-rpm-config
yum install gtk2-devel
yum install ncurses-devel
yum install readline-devel
yum install bison
yum install krb5-devel
yum install openssl-devel
yum install cvs
yum install patchutils
yum install libidn-devel

Yum will solve automatically all dependencies.

Now we must download the kernel source rpm, in this case kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.src.rpm from the updates

mkdir /downloads
wget (url of kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.src.rpm)


Now cd to /downloads directory (or where you downloaded the package) and install the package with:

rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.src.rpm

If you get this error

error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

you must create 2 directories:

mkdir /usr/src/redhat
mkdir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

and retry Update the source rpm.

Now move to specs directory

cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

open with your favorite text editor the file kernel-2.6.spec

vi kernel-2.6.spec

and change this line to fit as follow:


%define buildup 0
%define buildsmp 0
%define buildsource 1
%define builddoc 0


Save, exit and build your new rpm:

rpmbuild --target i686 -ba kernel-2.6.spec
Let fedora working and don’t stop the process. When it’s done move to i686 dir and update your rpm

cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686
/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.root.i686.rpm

Fax Support

Before installing our pbx we’ll install fax support with tiff library. If you are not interested in fax support jump to Asterisk Setup.

Get latest tiff library from Maptools.org (in this case tiff-3.7.2)

cd /usr/src
wget http://dl.maptools.org/dl/libtiff/tiff-3.7.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf tiff-3.7.2.tar.gz
cd tiff-3.7.2
./configure
make
make install


Get and compile the latest Spand Fax software (in this case 0.0.2pre10) from this ftp server
cd /usr/src
wget (latestspand)
tar -zxvf spandsp-0.0.2pre10.tar.gz
cd spandsp-0.0.2
./configure
make
make install


NOTE: This section is under construction

# # # # # # Asterisk Setup # # # # # #

Get the latest bristuff package from junghanns.net (in this case 0.2.0-RC7k) and unpack it

cd /usr/src
wget (latest bristuff)
tar -zxvf bristuff-0.2.0-RC7k.tar.gz

Now we have to make some changes in order to get asterisk and zap working on fedora:
cd /usr/src

Add these 2 links:
ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/build/ /usr/src/linux-2.6
ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.root/ /usr/src/linux

edit in your text editor /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and add
KERNEL="zapctl", NAME="zap/ctl"
KERNEL="zaptimer", NAME="zap/timer"
KERNEL="zapchannel", NAME="zap/channel"
KERNEL="zappseudo", NAME="zap/pseudo"
KERNEL="zap[0-9]*", NAME="zap/%n"


You must also edit some header files in order to avoid compile errors

in file /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/irq.h
at 16 change:
#include "irq-vectors.h" to:
#include "mach-default/irq_vectors.h"
(and not to: #include "mach-default/irq-vectors.h" as said on this tutorial on voip-info.org)

in file /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/mpspec.h at line 18 change:
asm/mpspec .h to:
asm/mach-default/mach_mpspec.h

in file /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/smp.h at line 71 change:
mach_apicdef .h to: asm/mach-default/mach_apicdef.h

Now we're ready to download and compile asterisk. We'll use the bristuff that will download, patch and compile automatically all packages.

We first need to do some changes in compile.sh file:

SPAN 1: CCS/ AMI Build-out: 399-533 feet (DSX-1)

Channel map:

Channel 01: Individual Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 01)
Channel 02: Individual Clear channel (Default) (Slaves: 02)
Channel 03: D-channel (Default) (Slaves: 03)