[asterisk-users] ATA react to phone but unresponsive to fax modem [SOLVED]

[Olivier]

2009/3/17 Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com>

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> 2009/3/16 Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com>
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> Hi,
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>> I'm rather new to this domain so I may be doing stupid things without
>> being concious of that.
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>> I've got a Patton MATA I'm trying to setup as T.38 fax adapter.
>> Whenever I connect a fax machine (Dell MFP1815dn) or a phone to it, I can
>> successfully send a fax or talk to the other end.
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>> Whenever I connect a fax modem (Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop), I keep getting
>> "No signal. Line is busy or disconnect" from Windows XP fax application.
>> Whatching SIP trafic from this Patton MATA, I can see no single SIP is
>> leaving the box so I'm certain issue relates to analog line settings but I'm
>> mostly lost with things like Ring Polarity, Ring settings and so on.
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>> I tried to mimic settings from an SPA3102 with which I can either fax from
>> fax machine or fax application but I'm unsuccessful at the moment.
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>> 1. Can you explain what is going on ?
>> 2 What would you say reading this :
>> Ring waveform:  trapezoid
>> Ring frequency: 20
>> Ring voltage: 85
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Reducing voltage to 60 made the fax-modem reply.
This is a bit strange as this value is quite different from the one working
with SPA3102.


>> FXS input gain: -6
>> FXS output gain: -6
>> (I copied those values from SPA3102 into MATA)
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>> Best regards
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> Changing FXS input gain and FXS output gain from -6 to -12 improved things
> as I could fax out in T.38 with both ATAs and fax endpoints !
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> But for incoming faxes, modem connected to M-ATA remains silent and idle
> whenever the M-ATA receives a fax call : I can see incoming SIP signal
> arriving into the ATA but it seems no analog signal is going out from it.
> (using SPA3102, faxes are correctly received).
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> How is called the signal an ATA uses when it wants to wake an analog phone
> or a fax machine up ?
> Is it correct to think the same electrical signal is sent whatever the
> analog endpoint is ?
> What could explain a phone is ringing at one and a fax modem remains idle ?
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> Regards
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