No outgoing calls from Ekiga 3.2.4

dwabot · 09-13-2009, 01:22 PM

Using the latest Slackbuild I installed Ekiga 3.2.4 on my Slackware 13.0 system. Audio in/out works, camera is detected, and Ekiga indicates its successfully registered to my Ekiga and SIP-provider accounts.

The problem: I can receive *incoming* calls via SIP but I cannot make any *outgoing* calls... neither through my Ekiga or SIP accounts.

Whenever I try to call the Ekiga echo service or any other number it works away in silence for maybe 30 seconds... using the echo service as an example it displays "pc:udp$ekiga.net:5060"... then always fails with the message "User is not available."

I don't want to start messing with my router because I need this to work outside my home (where I won't have access to *their* router).

Anyone using the latest Ekiga successfully to make VOIP calls? Thanks for any help in getting this to work.

pingu · 09-13-2009, 02:41 PM

To me, this sounds like a firewall issue.
You get incoming calls, this means you are correctly registered with your provider and voip-traffic finds the way to you.
Suggestion: shut down your firewall(s) - could be in your router as well as in computer then try to call.
And of course: verify you're dialing a correct number (you'd be surprised how many times a small typo has kept me working for hours... )

dwabot · 09-13-2009, 03:22 PM

No firewall running on this computer... and I am not exactly sure *how* to stop the firewall running on my Linksys. I am using the Tomato firmware on the router.

But most importantly... I don't *want* to start messing with router/firewall configuration because I need to use a robust VOIP client that works *outside* of my house where I won't have access to the router.

On a side-note... I just installed Skype via Slackbuild and it works (calling the test service and a landline). But I would prefer an open source client with video capability.

aihaike · 09-17-2009, 09:55 AM

Hi,

I got similar issue with qutecom.
I can not login voipdiscount any more since I upgraded from 12.2 to 13.0.
Fater installed opal and ptlib successfully from slackbuid I can not install Ekiga (I eared it support voipdiscount), the compilation crash.
Any way, did you get any solution to your problem?
Best,

Eric.

dwabot · 09-17-2009, 12:17 PM

Hi aihaike... No... I did not get Ekiga completely working. I am just going to use Skype (which does work) for the time being.

aihaike · 09-19-2009, 04:12 PM

Hey,

May I ask you how you did compile it?
I installed successfully slackbuilds of ptlib and opal but when I execute ./ekiga.SlackBuild (as root) I get an error like

Code:

/usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:1675: error: declaration of â€˜typedef struct sigc::slot_list<sigc::slot<T_return, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil> > sigc::signal0<T_return, T_accumulator>::slot_listâ€™
....
make[5]: *** [codecsbox.lo] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/ekiga-3.2.4/lib/gui'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/ekiga-3.2.4/lib/gui'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/ekiga-3.2.4/lib'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/ekiga-3.2.4/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/ekiga-3.2.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Thanks.

Eric.

aihaike · 09-23-2009, 12:03 PM

Ok, I've decided to install it from scratch.
I got the latest sources from here (ekiga_3.2.6).
Compilations of ptlib and opal goes just well but I had to upgrade sigc using this package (libsigc++-2.2.4) to build ekiga.
I've buit ekiga with this configure command:

Code:

./configure --disable-eds --enable-gconf --disable-avahi --disable-scrollkeeper --disable-gdu

Than I had to remove most of the audio codecs to be able to get it working (I've kept only G722, gsm, and speex).

I use voipdiscount and I'm now able to call landline and mobile numbers so far.
I can not tell anything about receive call.

Hope it will help.

Best,

Eric.