TDM400P - odd issues

Hi,

I'm running a TDM400P with 2xFXS and 1xFXO on an AMD64
dual-core  
machine (Nvidia chipset motherboard) running in i386 mode on
FreeBSD  
6.2.  I had been experiencing intermittent problems with the
TDM400  
setup.  The old problem I used to see was that channel 2
(2nd FXS)  
would have battery but no dialtone, and channel 4 (FXO)
would be able  
to place outbound calls, but would miss incoming
rings/callerid and  
not pickup.  Channel 1 (FXS) would work just fine.  This
used to  
happen every few weeks.  Recently, it was happening every
few days,  
before the new problem cropped up...

Today, my wife reported an even weirder problem:  any
attempts to use  
the FXO would result in really loud static/noise after the
FXS was  
joined to the FXO, and a the outbound dialing did not occur.
 I  
checked, and the analog line works perfectly.

Here's what I've tried:
- I tried a power cycle.  Same problem.
- I upgraded the zaptel driver to the latest port (1.4.6)
and  
asterisk.  Same problem.
- I upgraded asterisk.  Same problem.

Unfortunately, I can't recall what previous port versions I
had  
installed, but they weren't very old, and the first problem
persisted  
through several versions of the ports for both asterisk and
the  
zaptel driver.

I now have:

# Installed ports
asterisk-1.4.9_1    An Open Source PBX and telephony
toolkit
zaptel-1.4.6_2      A FreeBSD Driver for FXO, FXS, BRI and
PRI  
Telephony Cards
asterisk-addons-1.4.2 GPL modules for the Asterisk Open
Source PBX

# uname -imrs
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p6 i386 GENERIC

# zfcfg
Keyword: [fxoks], Value: [1-2]
Keyword: [fxsks], Value: [4]
Keyword: [loadzone], Value: [us]
Keyword: [defaultzone], Value: [us]

Additionally, I have the following /usr/local/etc/asterisk/

zapata.conf for the FXO:

context=incoming
rxgain=1.0
txgain=1.0
signalling=fxs_ks
ringtimeout=8000
immediate=no
callprogress=yes
busydetect=yes
busycount=6
echocancel=yes
echocancelwhenbridged=yes
echotraining=yes
channel => 4

I also tried:

context=incoming
rxgain=1.0
txgain=1.0
signalling=fxs_ks
ringtimeout=8000
immediate=no
echocancel=yes
channel => 4

and the static/noise was even louder.

Here's my zttest output:

--- Results after 319 passes ---
Best: 100.000000 -- Worst: 99.963379 -- Average: 99.996020

# Driver load output
Sep  1 12:55:01 kerplunk kernel: Zapata Telephony Interface 

Registered on major 196
Sep  1 12:55:01 kerplunk kernel: Echo Canceller: MG2
Sep  1 12:55:01 kerplunk kernel: FXS device: vendor=e159
device=1  
subvendor=b1d9
Sep  1 12:55:01 kerplunk kernel: wcfxs0: <Wildcard
TDM400P REV I>  
port 0xa800-0xa8ff mem 0xd2101000-0xd2101fff irq 18 at
device 8.0 on  
pci5
Sep  1 12:55:01 kerplunk kernel: FXS Attach for wcfxs0:
deviceID :  
0xe159
Sep  1 12:55:01 kerplunk kernel: wcfxs0: [FAST]
Sep  1 12:55:01 kerplunk kernel: Freshmaker version: 73
Sep  1 12:55:01 kerplunk kernel: Freshmaker passed register
test
Sep  1 12:55:04 kerplunk kernel: Module 0: Installed -- AUTO
FXS
Sep  1 12:55:04 kerplunk kernel: Module 1: Installed -- AUTO
FXS
Sep  1 12:55:04 kerplunk kernel: ProSLIC sanity check
failed
Sep  1 12:55:04 kerplunk kernel: Module 2: Not installed
Sep  1 12:55:04 kerplunk kernel: Module 3: Installed -- AUTO
FXO
Sep  1 12:55:04 kerplunk kernel: Found a Wildcard TDM:
Wildcard  
TDM400P REV I (4 modules)
Sep  1 12:55:05 kerplunk kernel: Registered tone zone 0
(United  
States / North America)

Left to test:
- upgrade to latest 6.2 RELENG version.
- non-SMP kernel.
- Linux :-(

I'm beginning to suspect bad hardware.

Cheers,
Roy

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