On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 17:38 +0000, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> So, I guess the free softphones were poorly configured? I don't really
> want to use the proprietary one. Does anyone use Blueface happily with a
> free softphone? If so, any hints on which softphone/version works best and
> on configuration to use with Blueface? If I get one working I'll try and
> document it properly.
On this topic, get ekiga from http://www.ekiga.org/ . There are rpms
available for redhat rawhide (FC5) as of yesterday/today.
Run it, and the wizard will guide you through setting up your hardware
and setting up a new account with ekiga. For blueface you already have
an account with them instead, so on the wizard page which gives a toggle
box which has "set up ekiga account" pre-checked uncheck that box.
After ekiga starts up, go to edit->accounts and add...
Account Name: probably can be anything. e.g. use Full Name
Registrar is "sip.blueface.ie"
User Name: the username you selected on the blueface website originally
which they mailed you
Password: the password you selected on the blueface website which they
mailed you
i.e. your mail had this in it...
Server: sip.blueface.ie
Username: USERNAME
Password: PASSWORD
More Options:
Authentication Login: same username as "User Name" above
Realm/Domain: Blue Face
To dial a normal phone type in the phone no e.g. 0868161111 and whack
the connect icon. (i.e. autoexpands to sip:0868161111 at sip.blueface.ie)
Seems to work fine for me.
C.
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