Installing the DTNA device drivers

In order to use DTNA and SIP for VoIP, you must install the following Blueworx Voice Response filesets as a minimum:

The filesets dirTalk.DT and devices.dirTalk.artic960 are mandatory for Blueworx Voice Response without Voice over IP but dirTalk.VOIP_SIP is optional for Blueworx Voice Response. If you have already installed Blueworx Voice Response but are unsure whether or not dirTalk.VOIP_SIP is installed, follow the instructions in step 2 of the procedure in Installing the Blueworx Voice Response VoIP software.

Note: DTNA device drivers are shipped on the Blueworx Voice Response for AIX installation CD.

Installing the device drivers

The DTNA device driver and associated files (methods and so on) are supplied in the fileset devices.artic960.rte. The device driver for DTNA is named vnaio and is placed by the install process in the /usr/lib/drivers directory.

  1. Log on to AIX as root, if you are not logged on already.
  2. To determine if the devices.artic960.rte fileset is installed, run the command lslpp –l devices.artic960.rte and ensure that the file name is shown as being installed.
  3. To ensure that the DTNA device driver is present in its operating directory, run the command: 
    ls –al /usr/lib/drivers/vnaio
  4. If either of these checks shows that the DTNA device driver is not installed, locate the devices.artic960.rte fileset on your Blueworx Voice Response installation media and use smitty to install the fileset.
    1. To activate the new device driver, shut down and restart AIX, by running the command shutdown -Fr and pressing Enter.
    2. Repeat steps 2 and 3.

DTNA devices are not fully installed until the ownership of the devices is specified. See Setting ownership of the DTNAs.

Parent topic: Installing the DTNA adapter