[WYLUG-HELP]

[Mike Goodman]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:56 +0100, Yiannis Gatsoulis wrote:
> Mike Goodman wrote:
> 
> >Hi, Folks,
> >
> >Anyone know anything about Ekiga (used to be called gnomemeeting)?
> >
> >I have installed and set up Ekiga, registered with ekiga.net and with
> >another VoIP server (remember Adam Linford, who gave us the first of a
> >two-part VoIP presentation?).  The other server will not work with STUN
> >so I switched it off. I realised my connection with ekiga.net would not
> >work from that point on but I could live with that. Everything worked
> >with the server I wanted to use and I closed everything down. That was
> >yesterday evening.
> >
> >Today, I switched everything back on. I either get a "Could not open
> >channel for audio reception" error and a (silent) connection holds or a
> >disconnection at the moment of connection.
> >
> >  
> >
> Not really much of solving your problem but... I am getting the same 
> error message from time to time, still, audio reception works just fine 
> even with this error message...
> 
Thanks, Yiannis, but it doesn't work for me. I got the ekiga.net account
working again after a lot of fiddling about - found an OS STUN server
and reconfigured. Ekiga doesn't seem to like having accounts with more
than one STUN setting, though, and having found a firewall it is very
unhappy indeed to work without a STUN server. It may work when the FC5
compilers compile the latest version of Ekiga in. There's a known bug in
the one that's currently installed and I suspect the problem may lie
there.

I've got around it, temporarily at least, by installing an AIX2
softphone. After fixing the permissions on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer it
all works fine now.

I'll await an Ekiga update before I try SIP on FC5 again, or just get a
decent phone and bypass it altogether!

Best regards,

Mike