[asterisk-users] [UK SPECIFIC] DAHDI and a OpenVox Card

[Mark Phillips]

I can really only speak to questions 2;

The other 2 pins in your cable are for your second phone line - if you
have one that is. You should be able to plug in a 4 wire cable into any
socket in the house and get access to Both lines.



On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 16:02 +0100, Dunc wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just found this thread, which is amazing as I'm on my first go with 
> asterisk and so far I've been pulling my hair out for the last week :-)
> 
> I have 2 questions which were raised while this fault was being debugged.
> 
> 
> 1)
> 
> Gordon says:-
> 
>  > Is this a place where you get a polarity reversal event on call startup?
> 
> In the UK we do. (Well on BT lines - I've a funny feeling some
> Telewest/NTL lines use Bell signaling).
> 
> On an incoming call we get:
> 
>     Polarity reversal.
>     FSK Caller ID burst
>     Ringing
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Well I've got an NTL phone line, can anyone tell me what to use for that?
> 
> 
> 
> 2)
> 
> Do I still need the same 2pin cable? Because I've been to Maplins too 
> and bought one that I thought was right, but this one is a 4pin too.
> 
> Can anyone tell me which pins on their 2pin cable are connected at each 
> end? I'll bodge my cable until it works and then get a proper one once 
> I'm sure.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Dunc
> 
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Mark Phillips, G7LTT/NI2O
Randolph, NJ