[App_rpt-users] Have to manually crank the usb fob to make it work?

[Ken]

Steve

You can probably find some old posts by me saying that I have simply not
been able to get a PCI USB card to talk to the URI fob. I have tried 4
different cards with at least three different chip sets. So far I  have only
been able to use the mother board USB.

The computer is either a Dell PE2650, or PE2850 (64 bit) both with dual XEON
processors (and a really high-powered PCI-X type of card cage, for up to 3
PCI cards).  The PCI card works fine with a keyboard or mouse etc.  With the
fob it goes into the "slow blink" mode.  I am guessing this is the USB
interface doing the three re-tries that the USB2 standard requires - and
then sending a failed indication.

I use a hub to multiply ports - that usually works.  Once in a great while a
re-start fails. Sometimes just one fob does not start - pulling the usb
cable out and plugging it back in usually fixes that.

I have not tried the "rpt restart" command ... will give that a shot some
time.

In a related note - 

With astres.sh I often have trouble - sometimes serious trouble ("kernel
panic" and shut down) it is related to the thread that talks to the fob (usb
channel driver).

To restart, I always do astdn.sh followed by astup.sh - that is pretty
reliable.  Looking at the help, I see I should be using "rpt reload" from
within the CLI, if all I am doing is messing with the config ... so I just
learned something - thanks

73

Ken

BTW - looking in the C-Code for the usb channel I see that there is a jitter
buffer config (like in the IAX channel).  This is something I thought I
might play with some time but have not yet tried it. Have you looked at it?





> -----Original Message-----
> From: app_rpt-users-bounces at qrvc.com [mailto:app_rpt-users-
> bounces at qrvc.com] On Behalf Of Steve Gladden
> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 9:12 PM
> To: app_rpt-users at qrvc.com
> Subject: [App_rpt-users] Have to manually crank the usb fob to make it
> work?
> 
> Just did a clean install of ACID on a Compaq DL380 server
> This is a Box with Dual Pentium 733's and no built on USB.
> 
> Also to make this more fun I'm using a USB PCI card
> to get USB support.
> The card has an NEC chipset and I can provide more details as
> wanted.
> 
> It reliably does not work on bootup.
> What I mean by that the USB FOB is not producing any audio
> on it's output..
> It has the normal flashing light on the fob and the software behaves
> like usual when sending audio (no errors) or anything on screen that
> looks out of ordinary..
> 
> Now if I manually do an:
> 
> rpt restart
> 
> and then
> 
> radio key
> and
> radio unkey
> 
> a few times it startes to work and then works just fine after that..
> 
> If I restart asterisk or the entire box the problem comes back.
> 
> Has anyone else ever experienced this or soething like it?
> 
> I will try another USB card and moving the card around to different
> interrups..
> 
> Just weird...
> 
> and that it works after slapping it around with commands...
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