[Asterisk-Users] X101P FXO with RED alarm

[Kevin Walsh]

Richard Airlie [richard at darq.net] wrote:
> I've just added an X101P FXO card to my asterisk machine. The card is
> detected ok but zttool always shows it in a RED alarm state, which I
> understand means that it doesn't detect the line.
> 
> I've connected the card via the line socket to my analogue line using
> the cable that came with the card (and have also tried other cables too)
> but I always get a RED alarm. 
> 
> I'm located in the UK, running FreeBSD-5.2, with zaptel-0.5 drivers
> and asterisk-0.9.0_1 (both built from ports).
> 
First things first.  Scrap the "ports" and build from the latest
CVS source.  0.9 is far to old and buggy, and suspect the same of
the Zaptel driver you have, although I don't use *BSD myself.

Secondly, the red alarm does tend to mean that the line is not
connected, but I got what you're describing when I moved Asterisk to
a new machine.  Try the X100P card in a different PCI slot.  That
cleared it for me, for whatever reason.

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