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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.
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... )
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.
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,
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
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:
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