On 12/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi guys: Remember those DID line conversion cards that we were going to order a while ago? Well, we have three of them. I put two in an old server with an ISA backplane and they work pretty much as advertised. They generate - 48V themselves, autoconfig to the DID line, etc. There are, however, some issues; the biggest one being that the Asterisk server can't pick up the line when the DID card rings it. Right now we're using one of the cheap X-101p FXO cards to test with because I still have to justify ordering a multiport card.
Peter, I don't have any specific experience with your issue but it interested me so I did some googling. I know that ringing is one of those things that supposed to be something very specific and it's suited to analog systems. Digital systems have a hard time reproducing that 'ringing' and some do it better than others. Here's a discussion I found that might help: http://www.voipuser.org/forum_topic_1791.html Of particular interest to me was the discussion of a system that pulses positive DC rather than sending proper AC to indicate ringing. Apparently, Asterisk does not detect this pulsing as a ring. I don't remember seeing anything in zapata.conf that would 'loosen up' the ring detection. Are you in PEI, or are you local? Dave
