[Asterisk-Users] USB phone for Linux?

[Paul]

Michael Van Donselaar wrote:

>On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:41:17 -0400, Paul <digium-list at 9ux.com> wrote:
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>>Tony Mountifield wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>Can anyone recommend a USB phone that can be used under Linux, either
>>>interfacing directly with Asterisk in some way, or using a soft phone
>>>program on Linux that doesn't need screen interaction (only using the
>>>phone's keypad)?
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>>>The idea is to be able to plug it into the USB port of an Asterisk
>>>box in a rack, where screen, kbd and mouse may not be available.
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>>>Thanks in advance!
>>>Tony
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>>Find me a USB phone with sufficient hardware docs available and I will 
>>see what I can do. I could use the same type of thing. I have remote 
>>customer servers and would love to have them setup so my contractor tech 
>>can just plug in and become extension xxxx on my pbx here.
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>Tigerjet makes a USB handset that is based on the same chipset as the S100U.
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>In fact, it looks like there's enough info in the wcfxsusb.[ch] files in zaptel
>to get the keypad running.
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>I like the AU100 USB phone a lot better, but it looks like it will be windows
>only.  (ironically the AU100 was a lot easier to get working with iaxComm than
>the Tigerjet phone)
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>>What I would do is base the softphone on something like iaxclient. I 
>>would have it launched when the usb hotplug was seen.
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>>I suppose this could be initially done with 2 devices. One would be a 
>>good usb headset and the other would be a keypad with lcd display.
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I don't see any lcd display on the $34 phone. Maybe the $34 usb phone 
adaptor is a better starting point for me because it says caller ID is 
supported. I can plug a $12 phone that supports caller ID with name into 
the thing.