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

[Gary Jennejohn]

"Kai Krebber" writes:
> 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=3D0 (Call Control), C, TEI=3D91, 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=3DQ.931/I.451, cr=3D0x4d (from destination), message=3DCONNECT:
>      [date/time: 20.06.06 14:58]
>      [connected number (Q.951): 2312188199 (type=3Dnational, =
> plan=3DISDN,
>           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.
> 

Looks like you got a connection.

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

isdnmonitor(8) perhaps?

> 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.
> 

The manual pages are much more up-to-date than the old document which
you're using. I don't think that Helmut Michaelis has touched that in
years.

> 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.
> 

The official way is much simpler:
cd /usr/src
KERNCONF=your_kern_conf make buildkernel

You can set KERNCONF in /etc/make.conf or /etc/src.conf (7-CURRENT only).

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Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg garyjATdenxDOTde