[asterisk-users] Cisco 9971 help

[Patrick Lidstone]

I'm an asterisk hobbyist, and I've got my hands on some cisco 9971's
preloaded with SIP (I think they might only come in SIP flavour actually?).
I am quite excited about the possibilities with this kit - especially video
calls. Unlike the earlier Cisco phones (e.g. 79 series), these can't be
used standalone, and require a TFTP server to get their config. After many
hours of faffing, I've got the basic config parsing OK, but now I am stuck.
The phone won't actually finish booting without access to a couple more
files - a g4_tones.xml (which I've created from a g3_tones I found kicking
about, following a tip on the net) and gd_sip.jar which seems to contain
locale specific information or at least be locale specific. From what I can
gather, the gd_sip.jar is contained in po-locale-en-xxxxx which is listed
on Cisco's website for download but requires a partner login.

I know that on the voip-info site there is reference to possibly getting
access to the cisco site via a $12 maintenance contract, and I am not
adverse to paying monies where due at all, but I'm based in the UK and
haven't found anyone who knows anything about this.

Also, even if I had a maintenance contract, I'm not sure it would give me
access to the po-locale-en-xxxx build as that seems to be part of call
minder distributions, which would presumably be outside the scope of an
'end point' maintenance licence??

Any suggestions on how I source, re-create or otherwise address the
gd_sip.jar issues or get a paid login to the cisco site would be hugely
helpful, offlist is fine if more appropriate. I will write up my
experiences for the greater good - these phones have the potential to be
awesome with asterisk.

Cheers
Patrick
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