No dial tone on a new Rhino FXS channel bank

General Help
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We have two Rhino T1 cards. One R2T1 and one R4T1.

We need 5 of the T1 lines configured to work with 5 Rhino CB-24 FXS
Channel banks. When we hooked up the channel bank, there is no dial
tone. We synced the AutoT1 and we had Rhino configure the T1 cards. The
rhino techs spent two hours trying to get the dial tone but they
couldnt. It isnt a problem with the channel bank as we tried all 5 of
them.

Any suggestions?

Thank you

2

Post the output of

cat /proc/dahdi/*
3

I just redid the box because they said that they may have messed up some f
the setting.
So now I am as it is fresh install. However it looks like the default
drives dont work, how would I bring the cards live again so I Can try it.

Thanks

4

What distro are you running?

The FreePBX distro has the Rhino drivers included. Other distros may or may not.

5

PBX in a flash with Freepbx 11

6

http://downloads.rhinoequipment.com/Rhino%20Downloads/Support/rhino_util-0.1.2.tar.gz

7

Thank you. I got the cards live, but now the channels are listed as clear.
Below is my system.conf. How would i have the first span be a voice T1 line
(with echo cancellation) and the rest be FXS lines. I tried below for the first two spans, but I dont get a dial tone and in the dahdi config omdule of freepbx, it says DAHDi Doesn’t appear to be running. Click the ‘Restart/Reload Dahdi Button’ Below

# Autogenerated by /usr/sbin/dahdi_genconf on Tue May 26 22:05:03 2015
# If you edit this file and execute /usr/sbin/dahdi_genconf again,
# your manual changes will be LOST.
# Dahdi Configuration File
#
# This file is parsed by the Dahdi Configurator, dahdi_cfg
#
# Span 1: R2T1/0/1 "R2T1 Card 0 Span 1" (MASTER) ESF/B8ZS RED 
span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs
# termtype: te
fxoks=1-23
dchan=24
echocanceller=hwec,1-23

# Span 2: R2T1/0/2 "R2T1 Card 0 Span 2" ESF/B8ZS RED 
span=2,2,0,esf,b8zs
# termtype: te
fxsks=25-47
dchan=48
echocanceller=hwec,25-47

# Span 3: R4T1/1/1 "R4T1 Card 1 Span 1" ESF/B8ZS RED 
span=3,3,0,esf,b8zs
# termtype: te
bchan=49-71
dchan=72
echocanceller=hwec,49-71

# Span 4: R4T1/1/2 "R4T1 Card 1 Span 2" ESF/B8ZS RED 
span=4,4,0,esf,b8zs
# termtype: te
bchan=73-95
dchan=96
echocanceller=hwec,73-95

# Span 5: R4T1/1/3 "R4T1 Card 1 Span 3" ESF/B8ZS RED 
span=5,5,0,esf,b8zs
# termtype: te
bchan=97-119
dchan=120
echocanceller=hwec,97-119

# Span 6: R4T1/1/4 "R4T1 Card 1 Span 4" ESF/B8ZS RED 
span=6,6,0,esf,b8zs
# termtype: te
bchan=121-143
dchan=144
echocanceller=hwec,121-143

# Global data

loadzone    = us
defaultzone    = us
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With much playing around I managed to get it working (sort of).
Two issues still

  1. When I click on the dahdi extension that I had created already, it does not let me enter a channel number, all there is is a drop down list and the list is empty. If I manual edit chan_dadi_additional.conf and restart asterisk it then works. How can I get it that I can edit it from the freepbx interface
  2. There appears to be a bug in the freepbx interface, if I make changes using the dahdi module it writes it out without commas. It writes this:
    fxols=25-4749-7273-9697-120121-144
    Instead of this:
    fxols=25-47,49-72,73-96,97-120,121-144
    And then dahdi cant reload.
    Also dahdi gives an error about this line:
    echocanceller=oslec,25-4749-7273-9697-120121-144

It says invalid argument.

Thanks