ISDN does not work

[Christoph Bier]

Hi all!

This week I installed Warty on another desktop PC of a friend,
that's connected to the internet via ISDN. But there's a hard (at
least for me) problem, already mentioned by another guy on
linux.debian.bugs.dist at 19. October 2004
(2R0OZ-3GM-9 at gated-at.bofh.it).

$ sudo modprobe hisax type=20

Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: Linux Driver for passive
ISDN cards
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: Version 3.5 (module)
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: Layer1 Revision 2.46.2.5
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: Layer2 Revision 2.30.2.4
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: TeiMgr Revision 2.20.2.3
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: Layer3 Revision 2.22.2.3
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: LinkLayer Revision 2.59.2.4
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: Warning - no protocol specified
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: using protocol EURO
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: Card 1 Protocol EDSS1
Id=HiSax (0)
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: Traverse Tech. NETjet-S
driver Rev. 2.13.2.4
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt
0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: NETjet-S: TJ320 card configured at
0xec00 IRQ 169
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: NETjet-S: ISAC version (0):
2086/2186 V1.1
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: NETjet-S: IRQ 169 count 437
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: NETjet-S: IRQ 169 count 443
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: DSS1 Rev. 2.32.2.3
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: 2 channels added
Nov  5 13:54:09 localhost kernel: HiSax: MAX_WAITING_CALLS added

$ sudo /etc/init.d/isdnutils restart
Restarting ISDN services: error:
    Neither /dev/isdninfo nor /dev/isdn/isdninfo exist!
    Before you can use any ISDN facilities, ensure you have the 	
    proper kernel modules loaded. These will probably be 'isdn' and
    'hisax'. Read /usr/share/doc/isdnutils-base/README.HiSax.gz for
    more information (e.g. with 'zless
    /usr/share/doc/isdnutils-base/README.HiSax.gz').

But isdn and hisax are loaded successfully as you can see above.

Unfortunately the thread on linux.debian.bugs.dist ends up with no
solution resp. with the suggestion to close the bug, because they
make devfs responsible for the problem. But AFAIK Warty doesn't use
devfs (as it is depreciated in Kernel 2.6). Anyway, what can I do to
solve the problem?

Would Ubuntu-user be a better place to post?

Best regards,
	Christoph