[asterisk-users] Is this bad hardware? Dahdi-v-X100 clone

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 14 December 2009 10:28:08 am listuser at spamomania.co.uk wrote:
> I've spent a week playing with Asterisk 1.6 and I love it. What a
> brilliant piece of software!
>
> Progress and learning have been reasonably good. I have external SIP
> provider calls coming in and have put together a little call platform
> and I'm stunned at the flexibility.
>
> There is one issue for me. I took me a while to click that ZAPTEL now
> equals Dahdi, but now I'm there I have an issue with the a X100 clone
> card that I have been told *not* to mention as I'm guaranteed a hostile
> response :-< So, I've put on my flameproof pants to ask a simple
> question:
>
> dahdi show status gives a red alarm. I'm guessing this means the card is
> unable to detect the battery. I've plugged a test but into the loop
> through on the card, dialtone is there. I've tried reversing the
> polarity, two way/three way jack leads (I'm in the UK) but none the less
> I get:
>
> Description                              Alarms  IRQ    bpviol CRC4
> Fra Codi Options  LBO
> Wildcard X100P Board 1                   RED     0      0      0
> CAS Unk  YEL      0 db (CSU)/0-133 feet (DSX-1)
>
> Is this likely to be bad hardware (hostility towards this cheap card
> noted) or software/driver?

Getting dialtone on the passthrough port (it's passthrough, not loopback)
doesn't tell you much, as the pins are usually hardwired between the two
jacks.  Generally, what we tell people here who are having hardware problems
are to contact their reseller for support.  That's true, whether the cards are
Digium, Sangoma, or a cheap clone.  However, given that cheap clones generally
have no support system, it's interpreted as hostility when we cannot offer any
particular help.

-- 
Tilghman