[Freeswitch-users] Spandsp mulated modems inbound/no /dev/FS* device?

[Anthony Minessale]

IIRC its modem/1 or 2 3 4 etc.  Probably a for auto like tdm.  Check the
code to be sure....
On May 21, 2012 3:13 PM, "Alex Crow" <acrow at integrafin.co.uk> wrote:

> On 21/05/12 20:28, Ken Rice wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 5/21/12 2:15 PM, "Alex Crow"<acrow at integrafin.co.uk>  wrote:
> >> Also I have the problem that unless FreeSWITCH is run as root, the
> >> device nodes are not created.
> >>
> >> Unless in the last few weeks some docs have been updated on this, I'm
> >> still stuck with T38modem.
> >>
> > If freeswitch running as root and not running as root doesn't work, this
> > should tell you that you have a permissions issue... The FreeSWITCH
> > developers fixing your systems perms issues is beyond the scope of the
> > FreeSWITCH project...
> >
> > Otherwise, the FreeSWITCH modems basically work just like t38modem... The
> > only setting is how many of them to create then the only other settings
> is
> > configuring your platform to properly allow freeswitch (or the user that
> > freeswitch is running as) create those devices then configure hylafax to
> use
> > them as normal.
> >
> > The steps to do this can vary from platform to platform (or even
> versions of
> > the platform. For example how you do this on centos5 is not how you do
> this
> > on centos6 due to changes in the platform.)
> >
> > K
> >
> >
>
> Ken,
>
> I respectfully disagree with the "like t38modem" bit of this. With
> t38modem, you create a set of t38modem devices which actually register
> against FreeSWITCH and therefore appear as registered endpoints, so it's
> easy to route calls to them (ie transfer to "t38modem0 default XML").
> When I did run FS as root, despite the device nodes being created, I saw
> no endpoint registrations for the softmodems, nor did I find any
> documentation saying that these endpoints may be addressed as, for
> instance "spandsp/FSx".
>
> I am also used to writing udev rules, but I can't find anything that
> allows a non-root uid/gid user to create device nodes for a device
> provided by a userspace program.
>
> It'd be great to avoid T38modem, and I've asked these questions before,
> namely:
>
> 1) Does anyone have any examples on any platform of tweaking udev to
> allow FreeSWITCH to create device nodes at startup when running as, say,
> user freeswitch or user www-data (without making the primary group of
> said users "root" or setting setuid root on the executable). I am not
> prepared to take the risk of running as either effective uid or gid 0.
> Please share if so. I'm running on debian stable.
>
> 2) How does one direct an incoming call, say, from FreeTDM or a SIP/ISDN
> gateway to one of the softmodems. I cannot find this in the docs.
>
> If we can divorce these questions from any association with another
> user's questions on this list that's fine. I've tried to help that
> person as much as I can out of my own good nature.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
>
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