Why my phone dont have dial tone?

I have 2 questions

1.-
I’ve connected my phone to the fxs port, and it is dead, why? I read the tutorial of asterisk “future of…” and follow all instructions, everything is configured perfectly however it doesnt work, help me please…

2.-

it is about the telephone line, it is plug in asterisk, I was dono an echo test and it worked few weeks ago, but I tried the same test today and when a make a call I hear the echo of ring tone but if I start to talk, I cant hear anything, why??? :cry:

[quote]I’ve connected my phone to the fxs port, and it is dead, why? I read the tutorial of asterisk “future of…” and follow all instructions, everything is configured perfectly however it doesnt work, help me please…
[/quote]Well, what kind of adapter do you have ? A digium card, or ATA of some kind ? How have you set it up ?

For my ATAs, I work closely with the sip.conf file. I define a user as 1023 and in the sip.conf file I have a [1023] context that I work with at setting up. Both have to have the same passwords or secret= Once the ATA can be registered then you can start experimenting. Since I had two, I could call one to the other. Then I set about to getting the register= to function and the calling out via [voipaccount] area in sip.conf.

The more info you provide the more defined the missing is that I can help you discover what is left to do.[/quote]

I have a digium card, I have configured all, following the tutorial and i should be working fine, but it doesnt, the tutorial says that just plugging in and all will be working good, but not… in advance thanks