[PLUG] Skype and the yealink driver...

[someone]

Michael Robinson

I'm trying to get the yealink driver from 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/ to work. My 
testbed for my first try has been CentOS 5.

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Problems on CentOS 5...

I had to change yealink.c to include linux/usb/input.h instead
of linux/usb_input.h.  A 2.6.18 and higher kernel change it 
seems.

There isn't a CentOS 5 compatible Skype as far as I can tell.
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Problems on Fedora Core 3...

How do I get the kernel source code to compile it against?
Fedora seems to have a horrid habit of becoming repositoryless
fairly rapidly.  If anyone is thinking, "why aren't you using 
Fedora Core 7," there isn't a skype download for Fedora Core 7.

Skype 1.3.0 seems to crash a lot and I don't know why.
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I'm surprised there isn't an Ubuntu package on 
http://www.skype.com/.  Fedora is incredibly popular, but 
it's tremendously difficult to support it long term.  The
boosters of Skype are making a huge mistake IMHO remaining 
Windows/Mac centric and closed source in my opinion.

Skype on Freedos 1.1 or 2.0, whatever it gets called, would be 
awesome. Picture running freedos with Skype installed via qemu 
on practically any Linux system.

CentOS 5 has Xen, but I'm not familiar with it.  

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Problems with XP Home via vmware player on Fedora Core 3...

It was too slow.

I'm running into sound problems.

Activation is a show stopper sometimes.
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A workaround that might work is a skype phone with Linux 
built into it already that you plug directly into your DSL 
modem or Internet accessible network switch.  Phillips 
apparently sells a popular cordless skype phone in Europe
that doesn't need a seperate computer running skype to 
work.

I know that Vonage offers wifi based Internet telephony, but
it's $27/month for that service.

My brother Andrew wrote a Java application to talk over the
Internet between two iBooks, but it was buggy and you had to
use the ip address ( which is often dynamic ) to make a call.

Is comcast's hype that their digital phone service is not an
Internet phone justified?