Astribank 2 Drivers: Building from Sources

The new Astribank models, known as ‘Astribank 2’, require a DAHDI/Zaptel upgrade. When appropriate software packages are installed, it is possible to use combinations of the old (Astribank) and the new (Astribank 2) devices connected to the same Asterisk server.

Following are instructions for building from sources:

Building DAHDI from the Sources

Please refer to the the "DAHDI Notes" page for further instructions about Astribank reset and configuation.

Building Zaptel 1.4.x from the Sources

Download and build Zaptel from the source tarball that you can download by using the following link: http://updates.xorcom.com/astribank/zaptel-xpp.tgz

Please refer to the included README files for instructions about package building. Note that the following libraries must be pre-installed for Zaptel building: libusb-dev, newt-dev, ncurses-dev (for Debian, Ubuntu etc) and libusb-devel, newt-devel, ncurses-devel (for RedHat, CentOS etc). Also make sure that you have installed fxload utility on your system. This utility is used for downloading the Astribank firmware via USB. You can download deb and rpm fxload packages from the Xorcom Web site: http://updates.xorcom.com/astribank/fxload/  

Please refer to the "Zaptel Notes" page for further instructions about Astribank reset and configuration.

Building Zaptel 1.2.x from the Sources

At this time, Astribank 2 is not supported in Zaptel 1.2.