am I connected? (was: freebsd-isdn-newbie doesn't know, where to start)

[Kai Krebber]

Hi!


> What i4b version are you talking about? The
official i4b or the version from HPS?

No idea (not good - i know). Since I didn't download and or compile any
isdn-specific stuff (apart from the kernel itself), it must be the
official one.


Anyway: Now I see exciting messages flashing up my screen:

-- NT->TE - unit:0 - frame:000314 - time:20.06 14:58:26.359355 -
length:29 -----
Dump:000  02 b7 16 08                                           ....
Q921: SAP=0 (Call Control), C, TEI=91, I-Frame: N(S) 11 N(R) 4 P 0
Dump:004  08 01 cd 07 29 05 06 06 14 0e 3a 4c 0c 21 81 32
....).....:L.!.2
Dump:020  33 31 32 31 38 38 31 39 39
312188199
Q931: pd=Q.931/I.451, cr=0x4d (from destination), message=CONNECT:
     [date/time: 20.06.06 14:58]
     [connected number (Q.951): 2312188199 (type=national, plan=ISDN,
          presentation allowed, screening user provided: verified &
passed)]

I suppose, the card as such is working. It's probably (hopefully?) not
my box connected to 2312188199 - there are other devices hooked up to
the S0-Bus, e.g. a fax-server.

Next task: getting ppp with a provider working AND cost-control.

How Do I find out, if the box is currently 'online' (no GUI -
commandline only)?


>> "for FreeBSD >= 5.0 replace the keyword pseudo-device with the
keyword device in the following examples..."
>> 
>> device ifpi 1

>AFAIR this is the notation of a FreeBSD 4.x release. With 5.x and up
>do not include the number (count) of devices.

Well, since the doc explicitely names >=5.0, I would assume that this
gotcha would be mentioned...

The doc should be updated and I know...I'm more then welcome to do so.
If I am able to tell apart apples an pears (i.e. i4bisppp, ispppcontrol,
/dev/i4b etc), I'll help in updating the doc.


>from the config(8) man page:
>This is the old version of the config utility."

Yea - I read that too. Only the isdn-documentation, I posses tells me to
use config (probably because at the time of writing it was state of the
art).

Since I'm pretty new to FreeBSD, I don't dare to leave the path
described by the doc. I'll get lost.

Cheers,
 Kai