PIONEERS Incredible PBX for Dockstar & PogoPlug E02

Jeffrccar

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From: http://pbxinaflash.com/community/index.php?threads/incredible-pbx-for-pogoplug-4.15508/
Hey Jeffrccar: can you post in this thread:

http://pbxinaflash.com/community/index.php?threads/incredible-pbx-for-dockstar-pogoplug-e02.15650/

... the steps you took to make a Dockstar reliably boot the Pogo image with all modules working and "green?"

If you read that thread several of us had some issues. I for one had to copy the "3.2.0-4-kirkwood" folder from my original Dockstar Debian+Asterisk install USB flashdrive to the new-from-pogo-image /lib/modules folder. And that resulted in some after-effects later on when trying to update things.

First step you need to install 2014.07 U-Boot img
The Qui Hong blog explains it well what i did except i went to 2014.07 U-Boot forums and changed the fw_setenv arcNumber to '2998' fw_setenv machid to '' for dockstar.
For rootfs (pogoplugv4) img, I untarred it and I flashed the usb drive with Win32 disk Imager.
so, the image works fine no module problems and a Green led.

@tycho: 3.2.0-4-kirkwood? 2014.07 U-Boot images supports 3.16+. The pogoplugv4 img runs on 3.14.0-kirkwood.What version u-boot are you using?
 

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@tycho: 3.2.0-4-kirkwood? 2014.07 U-Boot images supports 3.16+. The pogoplugv4 img runs on 3.14.0-kirkwood.What version u-boot are you using?


A much older (well, 2013 maybe) U-Boot from the Jeff Dozan site. I've been running Asterisk on my Dockstar since February of 2011. Last updated the U-Boot either last year or early this year. Normally, new U-Boots are not required...

Because I've had this Dockstar for a while I did not start it from scratch using the Q-Hong blog directions (which were, in any event, for the Pogo). That's why I'm asking: if all I have to do is re-image the Dockstar with a more modern U-Boot system per the Hong blog, I'm in, because the Dockstar is 50% faster than my PogoMobile (1.2 GHz vs 800 Mhz).
 

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I would upgrade to 2014.07. i'm not having any problems. In your case i would download an img that you know will boot up and follow Q-Hong blog to update u-boot and Environment Parameters.
The real reason why i like Q-Hong blog is the direct downloading to dockstar(no dropbox downloading).

I upgraded from 2011.12 to 2014.07. However, I should have booted up the pogo img before i upgraded to see if it worked. so, i can't really say if the old u-boot would work.
I see at 22 Feb 2014 bodhi started to support the dockstar (2013.10 u-boot).
 

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Yes, some posters to this thread used the Bohdi modules. I'm on a tiny screen at the moment, but scroll up through the thread and you will find references to those installations.
 

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First step you need to install 2014.07 U-Boot img
The Qui Hong blog explains it well what i did except i went to 2014.07 U-Boot forums and changed the fw_setenv arcNumber to '2998' fw_setenv machid to '' for dockstar.
For rootfs (pogoplugv4) img, I untarred it and I flashed the usb drive with Win32 disk Imager.
so, the image works fine no module problems and a Green led.

I forgot, For the dockstar don't use the pogov4 u-boot instead use:
Code:
wget http://bitly.com/1ptGKWu
 

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I posted this on the V4 thread but wanted to repost over here regarding the SheevaPlug (another armV5 Marvell platform). I was able to get FreePBX 2.11 and Asterisk 11.14.1 compiled from source, loaded and operational on it by following these two guides: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/ and http://wiki.freepbx.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1409028. Note that I used the Ubuntu FreePBX tutorial, not the Debian one - the Debian tutorial requested dependencies that were not available for the armel kernel. I also tried implementing the Incredible PBX installer (modified) for the Beaglebone Black but because the BBB RASPBX image is populated with certain programs which the IPBX installer assumes are there, on the Sheevaplug it ended up borking the FPBX/Asterisk install. I might try copying and pasting some of the NV routines from my other working IPBX installs on other platforms so that I have as much of that functionality on the Sheevaplug. Will report back on my progress. I can also report that FPBX on the Sheevaplug is very responsive in fact it appears at least as quick as my BBB running IPBX. You can find used Sheevaplugs for less than $20.00 so definitely worth the investment if you plan on using one for a PBX.
 

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Anyone that has interest in getting fax to work on a PP E02, I finally did get it to work by compliling iaxmodem from source. The rest of the programs you need like hylafax-server, ghostscript, etc. you can apt-get from the repository. I ended up setting up a couple IAX2 extensions to link to the IAX modems. IB and OB work OK but if you start messing around with the IPBX webui at the same time as sending a fax, well it crashes the connection and ends up re-dialing. And as far as Avantfax goes, not even going to try.....................

Another thing which I discovered which aids with faxing, turn apache2 off 'service apache2 stop' via SSH. Unless you need to make changes to Asterisk via FreePBX, it doesn't seem to impact the operation of Asterisk itself and it's easy enough to turn it back on 'service apache2 start' when you need to make changes to Asterisk. Not sure if that impacts other things but for the few hours I have tried it, it seems to be fine.
 

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Always wondered why my E02 always said it had 128MB of RAM when I knew it had 256MB. Because the IPBX image is for the V4, the uImage file in /boot needs to be modified to a customized version for the E02 to see it's RAM above 128MB. More information about how to do it is here: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096,page=28 . I'll try it out when I have time to make a backup of my IPBX drive and report back on my results.

Edit 3-11-2015: I was successful in accomplishing this and my Pogoplug E02 now properly registers the 256MB of Ram it has. I haven't noticed much of a speed difference but it would probably make a difference if I had a lot of call volume.
 

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