Yes, I hereby withdraw my suggestion (see my earlier, 2nd post)!! NOT advocating connecting a magneto to the telco circuit! and only to a digium card if you want to let off some steam.... (and probably fry the card)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Boehnlein Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] [OT] Oldest Telephone On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Scott Stingel wrote: > Well, the nice things about telephones, in the US anyway, is that they are > generally backward-compatible with each other. > > Why not, as a first step, connect a normal telco line to L1 and L2, and see > if you get dial tone through the receiver? I'm sure that your LEC wouldn't minx 100 Volts AC getting sent to their switch ! ;) If you plan on doing that, might as well dust off the archives and check out this backwoods, inbred cousin of 802.3af: http://www.linuxsavvy.com/staff/jgotts/underground/boxes/blotto.html What is scary is that I was around when this originally circulated the BBS scene, circa 84/85. ;) _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
