On Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 1:23:42 PM UTC-4, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article , says...

It may also be that the voip adapter doesn't provide sufficient current to
drive the ringer.



I did not catch the VOIP. If so you are probably correct. I have VOIP
and an old Sothwester Bell Freedom phone. One of the slim types. It
will not ring the bell and neither will the touch pad so I can not dial
out or answer any of those calls that say press a number. It will
answer and talk.

Presumably that's why the OP said this:



"i got the Telephone Module Pulse Transfer Dual Tone Multiple Frequency DTMF Converter"


You would think the converter, to be useful, would generate the ring voltage,
but who knows. Which is why I asked for a link to whatever it is that he has.