2. Source- and other requisites

2.1. Hard- and Software and elsewhere

An ISDN-card ;-)

As Elsa did provide money for the hisax-developpers and for the certification for the german telephone net I would recommend one of theirs, but who am I ...

The Kernel

You must not take the one delivered with RedHat 5.2, as the ISDN-part is faulty. Get the newest from Kernel 2.0.36

ISDN4K-utils

The newest ISDN4K-utils 3 beta 2 (available as RPM from ftp://trollmor.terminator.net), or as source from ftp://ftp.suse.com To compile the X-programs make sure you have X-header-files installed.

The Scripts

Of course my script-collection for RedHat ;-) (available as tgz, RPM and SRPM).

News

With Halloween III ( = RH6.0 GPL) the kernel (2.2.9 resp. 2.2.12) and the isdn4kutils (local copy) included in this edition will work out of the box.

2.2. Compiling the kernel and configuring PnP devices

When compiling the kernel make sure, that you have set the following options:

Network-Device-Support

  • PPP-support (best as module)

ISDN-Subsystem:

  • Support synchronous PPP

  • normally Euro DSS1

  • maybe German Chargeinfo

  • and of course the driver for your ISDN-card

After compiling and installing the kernel, do the same with the ISDN4K-utils. If you have a Plug 'n Pray-card make sure that you have configured it right. Take a look into isapnp.conf.elsa of my script-collection and of course RTFM ;-). For further information on compiling the kernel and configuring PnP have a look at Section 11.2.