[A-Link IPU1 USB Phone] Working with X-Lite or X-Ten?

Made some progress: Those *Mate utities are required for USB phones. The one provided by A-Link is out of date. An updated can be found at

- will sort of work with X-Lite 3: I can receive a call, but not call an extension, as it sends crappy numbers to the application :

- won't work with EyeBeam 1.5.5.1: "Can't find software". Looks like it won't work with EB 1.5 and above.

Anybody has a more recent version of X-TenMate or a work-around for the crap characters issue?

Looking at I see that the device, apparently, works with linux!? You're running forte, and, hence, windows? Have you tried it with linux?

-Thufir

I don't use Linux on the client host, and I would be very surprized if a cheap USB phone like that would have a driver for Linux. It's basically a remote phone card that requires an applet to work with an SIP application. Nothing like a real SIP phone.

It's rather odd. A-link wrote to me:

'Reply-To: From: "Tero Nordman" To: Subject: VL: Thank you for your order #99501761! Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 08:36:10 +0200 Organization: A-Link Europe Ltd Message-Id:

Dear Sir,

IPU1 and IPU2 can operate in Linux with any SIP software. You can make calls with any SIP software in Linux, but IPU1 or IPU2 keybad do not = work. Only Skype for Linux have Skypemate software to enable keybad for linux/Skype use.

Best Regards:

Tero Nordman A-Link Europe Ltd Email: snipped-for-privacy@a-link.com Web:

But it's hard to know who the OEM is.

-Thufir

But that, they probably meant that, in the absolute, since that phone is a USB phonecard, you can develop a driver that will be the interface between the phone and any SIP application running on the computer.

If you go to their site, you won't find anything for platforms other than Windows. And even then, they only provide the applet for three SIP clients (X-Lite which is buggy as of now, SJPhone, Skype).

Care to develop that application for Linux? ;-)

As far as I can tell, Yealink = A-Link.

No, I don't have the skills. But I'm curious as to why all this wasn't developed in Java. Or, wouldn't that have made a difference because it relates to hardware?

-Thufir

Java is crap :-) Fat, slow, and besides, 95% of users have Windows, so it doesn't make economic sense.

Besides, USB phones are marketed as a cheaper alternative to real IP phones like those from GrandStream or Cisco, so you can't really expect the same quality.

The A-Link is OK, but I'll buy hardphones instead.

Vincent Delporte wrote: [...]

Yeah, but it's cross platform. Anyhoo...

Absolutely. I was going to get the grandstream, but I'm behind a firewall and router and am not the system admin. So, skype looks good as it's a known factor.

In fact, I just got off the phone (or is it the "skype device"?) with ?Peter?, who's in Taiwan. First time I've spoken with anyone in Taiwan :)

For the record, his contact info is at: .

He's going to send me a pay-pal invoice, I'll see what sort of price he gives. The bonus to this phone is that I can at least play around with SIP, although I'll probably need IAX. The people who hack the nslu-2 "slug", and put asterisk on it, mention this phone. Although I don't see how it can do anything useful with asterisk, I'll get a chance to find out :)

-Thufir

How many people actually read these forums ?