Freephoneline in Ubuntu 9.10

[soltero5965]

Hello would freephoneline work in Ubuntu 9.10
I downloaded freephone softphone on my
laptop with Ubuntu 9.10 but it wont work
it work on my desktop with windows xp what could be wrong?

[FONGO_kris]

I do feel your pain, I am running Ubuntu 9.10 as well, and currently we do not have a Linux version of the software phone. I've found that running Sun VirtualBox with Win XP still works quite well in the mid-term. You can also install "Guest Additions" which enables seamless mode, which will put the windows task bar above your bottom panel (If you have one) and enable you to run ANY windows program in it. I wouldn't advice using Wine, as it has quite a few compatibility issues with Karmic 9.10.

[soltero5965]

I do feel your pain, I am running Ubuntu 9.10 as well, and currently we do not have a Linux version of the software phone. I've found that running Sun VirtualBox with Win XP still works quite well in the mid-term. You can also install "Guest Add-Ons" which enables seamless mode, which will put the windows task bar above your bottom panel (If you have one) and enable you to run ANY windows program in it. I wouldn't advice using Wine, as it has quite a few compatibility issues with Karmic 9.10.

"Guest Add-Ons" how do i install this program...no idea about this..Kris

[FONGO_kris]

So once you have the machine started up, click "Devices" and move down to the bottom where it says "Install Guest Additions"

This will probably take about 15 minutes but once you're done it will look something like this:

Screenshot-Windows XP Professional [Running] - Sun VirtualBox.png

You can switch between normal windowed veiw and seamless veiw with Host + L (Host is usually Ctrl on the right side of the keyboard).

[Skylark942]

Anything new about getting it ported over to Linux built OS's? I see that you're doing beta for Macs. From what I remember, Macs are partly Unix-based. Therefore the new Mac
Freephoneline software being designed should technically work on Linux?

[FONGO_steve]

Anything new about getting it ported over to Linux built OS's? I see that you're doing beta for Macs. From what I remember, Macs are partly Unix-based. Therefore the new Mac
Freephoneline software being designed should technically work on Linux?

It's still on the agenda, I can tell you that much. However, no official work has begun on this yet.

[hpu]

Hi,

I installed FPL on two virtual machine (Xp and 7) with virtual box but I alway get "No connection to the server" on my windows partition or on ubuntu.

And there's no problem with FPL directly installed on my windows partition.

What do I need to configure?

Thanks.

[curriegrad2004]

You'll probably need to get the SIP/RTP port forwarding working correctly on the host machine if you're using NAT for the guests network connectivity. A easy way to mange this is probably using netfilter's ip_nat_sip module. But if you're just simply bridging the host network's NIC to the guest NIC then loading ip_nat_sip is probably unnecessary...

Running the command "modprobe ip_nat_sip" as root on the host will load a filter that's going to snoop on to the SIP headers and then dynamically forward the ports to the guest. However with that method there's a gotcha, you'll need to run that command everytime if you want to get FPL working on the guest machine (Hint, hint: That's why start up scripts exist!)

As for your router goes, you'll have to figure out on how to forward those ports. If you are using a Linux based router, you can probably do the same to the router by loading the ip_nat_sip module, however don't take my word for it on the router, it might not even work depending on what your router distro is or if you even have root access to the router...