The DAHDI sources are contained in /usr/src/dahdi-linux-complete-VERSION 4
. Type the following to install DAHDI:
cd /usr/src/asterisk/dahdi-linux-complete-VERSION
make all
make install
This will take about one to two minutes, depending on the speed of your machine. When it is finished, it should drop us back at the command prompt. If the last message states that there is a failure, we will have to do some detective work in order to determine the cause. The most common issues experienced will be resolved by meeting the dependencies listed earlier in this chapter.
DAHDI contains drivers created for Asterisk that are necessary to use Digium's telephony hardware. It also includes a number of libraries that Asterisk depends on, whether we use Digium's hardware or not.
If we want to have Asterisk start up at boot time, we should issue the command:
# make config