On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:58:55AM +0000, George wrote: > On 2/11/10, Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:35:38PM +0000, George wrote: > >> I'm away from home right now and need VoIP to communicate with my > >> loved ones. Skype works, but it's a CPU hog, has an awful GUI, it > >> messes up with the soundcard, it's extremely buggy and thus a pain to > >> use. I've tried Gizmo, which sorta works but it's unusable because the > >> sound is horrible, to the point that you can't tell whether there's a > >> human or a malfunctioning robot at the other end. Linphone and Ekiga > >> don't work at all. > >> > > I use Ekiga on Debian Lenny 64- and 32-bit, and Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit. > > What exactly is the problem you're having with it? > > > > I'm trying to call someone who's on Windows. My call appears to reach > but there's no sound going across. I can hear nothing, they can hear > nothing. > In my (limited) experience, that's typically a problem with NAT and/or STUN. Pay close attention to what the configuration druid says about it. You can re-run the configuration druid by clicking "edit", "configuration druid".
If my understanding is correct, this is a potential problem with any SIP client. Also, Ekiga's STUN server was down recently. Maybe about a week ago, and it lasted about a day. You can search the internet for the mailing list archives -- it's in there. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
