vchiu

>try hyperterminal with 9600 ,mark ,8 and one

Yes I tried. Nothing. Just one or two akward ASCII characters adding up from time to time.

I rechecked the cable connectors once again
Cable 25(male) - 9(female) pin
2 - 2
3 - 3
4 - 8
5 - 7
6 - 4
7 - 5
20 - 6

Maybe my serial port is dead but it is the only computer around with a serial port.

OTOH, I could not locate which phone was connected on jack 01. The PBX installation is a real mess, so I reprogrammed through menu [006] the Manager phone to an other jack. The problem is still to locate which phone set is connected to which jack. I guess I must look in detail in the manual.

OBT

use program 99 6 and it will show you the extension and jack number on the display

vchiu

Thank you OBT.

As no set is connected to the jack 01, I decided to go to programme [006] to assign a jack to a Manager.
I see that program 006 does not exactly display as in the English User's manual. There is a A1 JOUR (Day) , A1 NUIT (Night) then A2 JOUR (Day) then A2 NUIT (NIGHT) then GEST (I believe it means Manager)
Both A1 were assigned to Jack 1 and both A2 were assigned to jack 2 whereas Manager was unassigned.

I assigned Manager to Jack 16 which was the jack of the set I was using (checked thanks to your help) . This was validated by a longer beep and I went out an back in to check the setting was still there.

the problem is that I still can't access programme [803] and [990]. I have 3 beeps telling me the request is not valid.

the US manual wrote that to get into programme mode, I must press the "prog" button and press * then #. However I need to press * twice and not # on my 1232 here.

I suspect there are some differences and that the 006 may not be the manager setting as described in the US programming guide

Of course, it is most likely I simply forgot something or made a mistake somewhere.

OBT

the ** option is user and the *# is the main programming in 006 you have operator 1 day, operator 1 night, then operator 2 day and operator 2 night then manager.
program *# option plus password can have a different password that the prog **, if the system managers password is changed you will have to know that to get in to the prog *# and that is where you have to get in to to program, 803 and 990

vchiu

IT WORKS

I could de-activate the cheap MoH and will set-up an external music source. Will probably put an MP3 player randomly playing classical music with an A/C adaptor.

This is great, I plan to continue study how to take control of this to have this PABX really work as it should

Thank you very much OBT for your help. Same to KMETECH. I would have missed some kind of step with just reading the User's manual and I would probably have dropped out of options.