Replacing RF links between repeaters with Allstar over the internet

App_rpt-users
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Ahh I see. The kernel is a bit too new for the older ASL DAHDI module. What does

uname -a

return?

Try this as well:
sudo apt-mark hold raspberrypi-kernel-headers raspberrypi-kernel
then try this again
dpkg-reconfigure asl-dahdi-linux-dkms

If that doesn’t work, try following this guide:
https://dvswitch.groups.io/g/allstarlink/topic/dev_dahdi_pseudo_device_job/69319385

22

Yea, I finally figured the kernel was too new so I rolled back and now I have asterisk running.

root@wilsonville:~# ps aux |grep asterisk
root 541 4.9 1.5 49784 14264 ? Ssl 17:43 0:16 /usr/sbin/asterisk -g -f -C /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
root 1460 0.0 0.0 4368 544 pts/0 S+ 17:49 0:00 grep asterisk

Now I need to struggle with getting the SimpleUSB stuff going. I’ve enabled and selected as per the docs in modules.conf and rpt.conf but when I try to run the SimpleUSB stuff in asl-menu, it complains about needing to enable and select as above. And yes, I’ve rebooted since the edit…

Man,

23

You can run the simpleusb tuner from the command line:

sudo simpleusb-tune-menu

24

That works, thanks.

I’m curious as to why the asl-menu selection doesn’t seem to pick up that the SimpleUSB option is both loaded and selected? Is this a known bug? Does asl-menu have a config file where the correct path needs to be set?

As I said, the documention for Allstar is quite poor it seems

25

Now that I have things running under Debian 9 (and its older kernel), I’d really like to upgrade to Debian Buster in order to keep some other things running on the same Pi3 happy.

I tried your idea of dpkg asl-dahdi-linux-dkmsbut apparently something is missing:

root@Wilsonville:~# dpkg asl-dahdi-linux-dkms
dpkg: error: need an action option

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use ‘apt’ or ‘aptitude’ for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;

Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through ‘less’ or ‘more’ !

26

Oops. It’s dpkg-reconfigure. My bad.

27

It should be available in the menu so I’m not
sure why it’s not showing.

28

I use command line not a GUI

29

Curiouser and curiouser
root@Wilsonville:~# dpkg-reconfigure asl-dahdi-linux-dkms
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: asl-dahdi-linux-dkms is broken or not fully installed
root@Wilsonville:~# ^C

30

Back to Debian 9 it appears…too bad

31

I should have added that Debian 10 isn’t possible with the old packages. The ASL beta is Debian 10, however.

32

Is the beta stable enough for use as a private node?

33

For sure. It’s being used on around 100 nodes right now with no major issues.

34

I’ll give it a try, thanks again