[asterisk-users] Cisco 79XX, SIP and Asterisk

[Olivier]

2009/8/12 Jonathan Thurman <jthurman42 at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2009/8/12 Jonathan Thurman <jthurman42 at gmail.com>
>>
>>> I am also using them quite extensively, but with English menus.  I know
>>> that the Locale files from Cisco do not come with the firmware, but usually
>>> as an update for CallManager.  There are a ton of languages that work with
>>> the latest firmware, but I have no idea how to actually get the files from
>>> Cisco.  You may be able to purchase SmartNet on the phones and get it that
>>> way, or at least they would listen when you called them...
>>>
>>> -Jonathan
>>>
>>
>> Using english menus is a show-stopper in non-english-speaking countries
>> ...
>
>
> Very true
>
>>
>> From memory, situation was the way you described : you need a call manager
>> (or Asterisk with SCCP ?) to get native menus.
>> It seems this is still the case ...
>>
>
> You need the locale files.  The phones will pull them off of any tftp
> server.
>
> If you have access to the Cisco software site, you can download the locale
> installer for a lot of languages.  You then just have to extract the files
> and get them onto your TFTP server and configure the phone to pull the
> correct locale.  This will most likely require either SmartNet on the phones
> or CallManager.
>

So, assuming you can get locale installer files, you would just need to save
appropriate file on a TFTP server and configure phones to pull them from
there ?
Then, it doesn't seem impossible to do that.

Thanks for letting me know this !


>
> -Jonathan
>
>
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