asterisk users - Nov 2005 - Zap/TDM400p with old phone.

Folks,

I am trying to use and **OLD** Automatic electric phone with my  
Asterisk server by plugging it into an FXS port on my TDM400p. The  
phone works great when plugged into a POTS line from Verizon.  
However, when I plug it into my TDM400p, the ringer is very weak, and  
pulse dialing does not work at all.

I added pulsedial=yes to /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf, but when I  
perform a "zap show channel x" it shows "Pulse phone: no".

For background, this is running A@H 1.3, which is Asterisk 1.0.8. I  
post here because I don't think this is an A@H specific problem, so  
no "this isn't an A@H list!" postings, please. I have also
attempted
adding "pulsedial=yes" to /etc/asterisk/zapata_additional.conf and / 
etc/asterisk/zapata-auto.conf. None of these work. Do I need to patch  
something to make this work, or should it just work out of the box?

Also, does anyone have suggestions for making the ringer work  
properly? Google provides lots of questions but no answers on both of  
these problems.

Tom

Tom Rymes wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I am trying to use and **OLD** Automatic electric phone with my  
> Asterisk server by plugging it into an FXS port on my TDM400p. The  
> phone works great when plugged into a POTS line from Verizon.  However, 
> when I plug it into my TDM400p, the ringer is very weak, and  pulse 
> dialing does not work at all.
> 
> I added pulsedial=yes to /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf, but when I  perform 
> a "zap show channel x" it shows "Pulse phone: no".
> 
> For background, this is running A@H 1.3, which is Asterisk 1.0.8. I  
> post here because I don't think this is an A@H specific problem, so  no
> "this isn't an A@H list!" postings, please. I have also
attempted
> adding "pulsedial=yes" to /etc/asterisk/zapata_additional.conf
and /
> etc/asterisk/zapata-auto.conf. None of these work. Do I need to patch  
> something to make this work, or should it just work out of the box?
> 
> Also, does anyone have suggestions for making the ringer work  properly? 
> Google provides lots of questions but no answers on both of  these 
> problems.
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