[Asterisk-Users] Q: Does anyone have a WE multi-line card dialer phone working with *?

[asterisk at draughon.org]

Folks,

	I recently obtained a Western Electric multi-line phone and am
seeking help with getting this beast working with *.

	The interesting stuff in my * implementation consists of a T100P
card, a TDM400P card, and an Adtran TA750 channel bank with three quad-port
FXS modules and a quad-port FXO. The TA750 is wired to a 24-port Cat 5 patch
panel via a 25-pair Amp cable.

	The phone is a model 2662A1M; it has five lines, a hold button (I
presume), card dialer capability, and a 25-pair Amp cable for connecting to
The Phone System. (The card dialer feature, IMHO, scores major geek points.
If you're not familiar with it, you take a special plastic card about the
size of a credit card and punch out two tiny discs for each digit in a phone
number. When it's time to call that number, you insert the card in the
phone, take the handset off hook, push the "START" button, and--voila!--the
phone speed dials your party.)

	Each line in the phone uses three pairs in the Amp cable; the first
pair is for ring and tip, the second pair is a mystery (I'm eagerly awaiting
a copy of one of the phone's BSPs so I can find out), and the third pair
illuminates the lamp in the button. Most of the remaining pairs in the Amp
cable connect to one of the terminal boards inside the phone, and one pair
connects to the phone's network (presumably for common ringing, since the
leads connect to L1 and L2).

	If I were to connect the first pair of each line to the patch panel,
I would have a perfectly serviceable five-line phone (I haven't yet tried
the "hold" button). I would not have, however, illuminated buttons to
indicate if channels were in use; nor would the phone ring on an incoming
call.

	If I connect the first and third pairs of a line and plug that mess
into a patch panel port, the lamp illuminates and the channel (according to
the TA750 and *) goes off-hook--but I do not get a dial tone. I have not,
BTW, performed any experiments with a port on the TDM400P.

	So . . . does anyone have any experience with such a project, or
have any ideas on how to trick this up?

					Cheers,

					Rob