[asterisk-users] usb-phones

[Steve Howes]

On 23 Mar 2009, at 22:44, Hans Witvliet wrote:

> While reading the thread about recommending usb-phones...
>
> Once in a while, i'm in a data-centre, no normal phones, and too much
> concrete shielding wireless phones.
> So i was thinking to use one of those usb-phones, and plug it into one
> of my servers there.
>
> But what i read from the thread, i seems that you need a graphical
> environment, while all of the servers are strictly cli-only.
>
> Is there a cli-based phone (besides the asterisk-console), that can  
> use
> a usb-audio-device?
> Afaicr,those usb-phones present themselves as an plain usb-audio  
> device.

You must have a spare eth port somewhere. What is wrong with a cheap  
VoIP phone?