Re: cisco ip softphone

[Tom Scott <telecomtom vedatel com>]

fedora wrote:
> I need to find out if theres a project that allows me to run Cisco IP 
> Phone
>
> Their software download only support Winblows and our company moved to 
> Soft Phone (and these suck the big one).
>
> So now I have to run windows to use the damn phone, worse if the screen 
> saver is engaged with password protection you cannot answer the damn thing 
> before loggin in. 
>
> And it crashes all the time on windows 2000 or suddenly disconnects and 
> gets all goofy thus requiring a system REBOOT to use the stupid phone.
>
> We hate this system but management doesnt care as they get actual 'hard 
> phones'. Real phones tied into the ip phone system and not the crap us 
> peons have to use.
>
> So I am wondering if someone knows how to get their softphone code working 
> in Fedora. Maybe i can at least get more stability.

Greg,

I wonder, can you run the cisco softphone software on linux under a windows 
emulation?

Secondly, if your Cisco softswitch/pbx is configured to support SIP, there are
several SIP softphone packages that run native under Linux. Ask your VoIP 
administrator if he supports SIP.

-- TT