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gksiaw
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2006-06-21
Submitted by gksiaw on Tue, 01/23/2007 - 2:00pm.

Hi Folks,

I am looking for a step by step guide to setting up a Cisco 7910 phone on a Trixbox 2.0 beta platform. I have been trawling the internet for bits of information but then I lose track after a while in setting it up. I am quite new at Trixbox and assumptions on some basic knowhow are made in the course of the setup process.

I currently have it up and working but there are a couple of problems. First I do not know exactly what sequence of configuration work made it work. This is worrying as it's a bit flaky for my liking.
The second problem is the 7910 can call a SIP soft phone but the reverse fails.
Whiles other phones can make and receive pstn calls the 7910 fails to get past this hurdle.

Whats the most stable SIP and Skinny images for 7940/60 and 7910?

Cheers,
George.

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jakev383
Posts: 92
 Member Since:
2006-06-23
Re: Setting up 7910
Tue, 01/23/2007 - 2:00pm
Quote:
gksiaw wrote:

Hi Folks,

I am looking for a step by step guide to setting up a Cisco 7910 phone on a Trixbox 2.0 beta platform. I have been trawling the internet for bits of information but then I lose track after a while in setting it up. I am quite new at Trixbox and assumptions on some basic knowhow are made in the course of the setup process.

I currently have it up and working but there are a couple of problems. First I do not know exactly what sequence of configuration work made it work. This is worrying as it's a bit flaky for my liking.
The second problem is the 7910 can call a SIP soft phone but the reverse fails.
Whiles other phones can make and receive pstn calls the 7910 fails to get past this hurdle.

Whats the most stable SIP and Skinny images for 7940/60 and 7910?

Hey. The 7940/7960 SIP images are up to 8.x now, but I stopped at 7.5 since that was the last stable one that had all the features I wanted; I know some of the 8.x loads have issues.
As far as the 7910 - I have one of these myself, and in reading around (I have not set it up yet either), that is one of the problems with the Skinny protocol - it can call one way, but not the other. I am going to experiment some myself, and will post more, but from what I've read you've gotten it as "working as it's gonna get".


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JulzNet
Posts: 1
 Member Since:
2007-04-09
Re: Setting up 7910
Mon, 04/09/2007 - 4:30am

I have 5 of the Cisco 7910's and I have all of them up and running with Asterisk@home/Trixbox, but again the same issue, I am able to call any SIP Phones conntected to TB but I am unable to phone any of the Cisco 7910's! I have been messing around with this for days now and I think I have tried almost everything, does anyone have any idea how to get the 7910 to recieve calls? I have tried different versions of Trixbox and Asterisk@home with no luck, As for the phone firmware, I have not changed this from the default as i simply do not know how to do it and I really don't get any of the Cisco website. The last thing I want to do is to purchase 5 new SIP phones, I would really like to get these to work, any ideas?

Cheers,

Julian


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Curitibano
Posts: 2
 Member Since:
2007-03-23
Cisco 7910
Sun, 04/15/2007 - 4:21am

Hi Julian,

I'm pretty new to Asterisk, but thankfully after a day I managed to get some Cisco 7910s (to appear at least!) to be working properly.

I'm thinking about writing a little how to guide/step-by-step - although I don't really think I have the knowledge yet to actually understand everything I've done.

Are you using Skinny or SCCP?

Here's what I eventually did:

- Fresh install of Trixbox from ISO (just to make it "easier", as this was only a test box)
- Installed SCCP, by following these instructions with a few changes:

http://forum.chan-sccp.org/viewtopic.php?p=383&sid=4d569f1490bae5...

What did I do differently? Well here is how I did it:

Checked via "Asterisk Info" my revision - 47264.

#cd /usr/src

#svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.2 asterisk-1.2 --revision 47264

[I skipped some of the other steps, as I couldn't see the relevance?]

I can't remember if the source downloaded into the folder asterisk, or asterisk 1.2. For that reason you'll have to customise it to your download. I also followed the corrections in the 2nd post.

Then I followed the SCCP instructions, that went fine.

To configure it, I started with this tutorial:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/SCCP-HOWTO2

Although of course, I have a 7910 - so modified appropriately. For ages I only had inbound calls - outbound calls just got a busy tone on the first digit dialed! I have seen loads of people suffering that problem. It all (at least for me) related to my "context" setting - set this incorrectly and it just doesn't work properly.

As I said, I'm a newbie and am just trying to understand how the dialplan/context works (Trixbox/freepbx kept me a bit sheltered!) - I set it to "from-internal" and it worked fine. The only weird thing is for dialing out everything but internal calls it has about a 5 second delay before it actually connects... probably something to do with the wrong context setting.


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Helix26404
Posts: 298
 Member Since:
2006-06-06
Unfortunately, this is how
Tue, 04/17/2007 - 11:01am

Unfortunately, this is how SCCP handles its dialplan. It creates its dialplan from the context you set it to. So for example, if you set it to from-internal and all of your extensions are 3 digits long, it will immediately start dialing after the 3rd digit.

You can make this marginally better by editing the digittimeout time in sccp.conf, but it is still no where near as flexible as the dialplan.xml that is available for the SIP firmware.

On a side note, I love the SCCP firmware except for the fact that the backspace softkey doesn't work and there is no dial softkey when dialing a phone number.

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Preston Edwards


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Nick_Walton
Posts: 28
 Member Since:
2007-12-16
Hmm
Fri, 05/02/2008 - 3:15am

I know this threads old now but I received a pair of 7910s the other day and I've got them working both inbound and outbound calling, and I've thought about getting a third. They make nice simple and cheap single line phones, and I like the cisco phones. I couldn't find much about getting them to work but managed to figure it out in the end.

Nick


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