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which usb telephone works with ekiga?

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Best Markus Thielmann (thielmann) said : 		#1

Thanks for your question.

I'm only able to find a message stating that there's a driver for CM109-based
USB VoIP phones (http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Controling_Ekiga_using_an_USB_phone).

But you should notice that (unlike Skype-based) SIP based telephony is *not* limited to the pc software.

That means it's way better to use standalone SIP phones (if you don't own a USB phone already), since they do not need a running Ekiga instance.

So just look around for a SIP capable phone. You'll find adaptors for "normal" telephones, special SIP-telephones, Wifi-SIP-Telephones and DECT SIP-telephones.

SIP-capable phones start at around 40€ (~50$).

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Tom (t-horejsi) said : 		#2

Thanks Markus Thielmann, that solved my question.