[Asterisk-Users] Adit 600 - Getting Dial Tone

[Steven Critchfield]

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 22:12, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On Monday 28 June 2004 23:04, Joshua McClintock wrote:
> > Hello, I have an Adit 600 (3 FXS cards) hooked up to a digium T1 card in my
> > asterisk box.  I 'connected' the slots to the a:1 T1 interfaces via the
> > command line.  The slots (3 fxs) are configured with 'ls' signaling.  I
> > configured the T1 card with the same line settings as the T1 interfaces on
> > the adit and I get green lights on both the T1 card and the T1 interface on
> > the adit (so they seem to be happy at that link level).  I configured the
> > T1 interface in the asterisk box to do 'fxsls' signaling on all 24
> > channels.
> 
> First things first: FXS ports use FXO signalling.
> 
> > 1. Should I be getting dial tone on my punch down block yet?  I can tell
> > the handset it getting power when I touch it to the correct places on the
> > punch down block, but no dial tone.  Does asterisk need to be aware of
> > these channels before dial tone will be heard?
> 
> You won't get dialtone until Asterisk properly configured and running; it's 
> what generates the dialtone.
> 
> > 2. Did I configure the digium card correctly?  Does it need to be setup as
> > fxo on the asterisk side and fxs on the channel bank side?
> 
> No, it is set up as FXS, but remember that FXS ports use FXO signalling.
> 
> out of curiousity, why did you choose an Adit600+T1 card for three FXS ports?  
> The TDM400P works great for FXS.

3 slots means 24 ports. 3 cards x 8 ports per card.

BTW, when you get asterisk happy and the signalling correct, for
looopstart or kewlstart, all the properly configured port indicators
will turn green and turn yellow/orange on pick up. If in groundstart
mode they will stay off and turn green upon connection.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>