This morning when I came to work the phone system, Internet connection, and printer were all down. We had a wind storm over the weekend up here in Bellingham, WA, and a few blackouts. The print we fixed, by tilting the print head back (away from the drum).

The Asterisk 1.2 phone system was also dead, the power off, it's an old computer that does not seem to have the feature that turns it back on when power is restored. But when I restored power it gave me this message over and over:

Asterisk ended with exit status 1
Asterisk died with code 1.
Automatically restarting Asterisk.

killall -9 safe_asterisk
killall -9 asterisk
/etc/init.d/asterisk start

I made Asterisk load successfully by commenting out the last block of lines in the /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf file, but there were no incoming phone lines, just internal intercom! No good. So I messed around with lsmod and insmod, zttool, and ztcfg. zttool told me that the zaptel devices were not there. Fore awhile I thought the cards had gone back during the black-out. But I finally fixed it by doing this:

# modprobe wcfxo
# modprobe zaptel
# ztcfg -v