[asterisk-users] usb-phones

[Gordon Henderson]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, 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.

I asked here a while back about a command-lime VoIP client. Got no-where 
interesting - other than people suggesting I run a full-blown asterisk, 
and alas I've not had time to do it myself. It *should* be relatively 
straightforward using the existing IAX libraries, I'd have thought, 
however...

Gordon