Hello!

I have found an downloaded SkypeMate for Linux, which unfortunately only exists for Fedora Core 3.

Can anybody tell me how to install the software with another Linux distribution? In my case I am using Gentoo Linux and the installation does not work.

First I get an error that libdbus1.so.1 does not exist, and after linking libdbus1.so.1 -> libdbus1.so I start SkypeMate again, get the windows for about a second and then it exists with a memory error (Speicherzugriffsfehler)!?!

Is there any solution to my problem?

Thx.

Hi,

I am on Debian Kubuntu and the last SkypeMate doesn't work on this distribution too

Any reply...

Sam.

I got around this by installing the dbus that came with Fedora ( via alien ) in a chroot, and making sure that Skype found that library instead.

Seems to work, unfortunatly I didnt research what I was doing and I have the B2k PTSN adaptor that doesn't seem to work on SKypeMate Linux at all yet, even though it shows up as a sound card device and a USB HID device.

Anyone know how to get that thing working?

nope, but I'm still interested. I got one downstairs collecting dust.

Grrr


Lemme guess, Skype and SkypeMate are working fine, but it's just not allowing you to use the handset to dialout (or in)? That's my problem. It's stuck on LINE and won't switch to USB. I had it working on a winders xp machine, but I want it on LEENOX!

YeaLink says that you should be able to dial a * to switch to USB, but it doesn't work for me. Does that work for anyone else?

*cheers

any luck with this one? i too bought usb-b2k and it doens't run skypemate cause i have gentoo..
fc3 is outdated anyway, skypemate guy's could compile their soft for the newer dbus ;_;

anyway i'm trying to go around this, even if i have to run vmware player with win2k inside (anyone tried? worst possible thing to do but i really need this one working...)

finnally after 4 hours of banging with the head in the table lol
ok i got it working:P sort of lol

first you need to set the alsamixer so it initializes the mic (so other people can ear you:P). then you need to set the right dsp in skype (provided that you have the right usb audio drivers (under the ALSA branch) and that it detects it.

so the trick is to install dbus 0.22 or 0.23.
i had gentoo on my side to do this...

unmerge dbus
- check in /etc/make.conf if you have "dbus" in the use flags and re-emerge python -> maybe it's necessary.. can't confirm
emerge /usr/portage/sys-apps/dbus/dbus-0.23.4-r1.ebuild

(this isn't the right way to emerge this version but i dont care i wanted to install this brute force )

skypemate run.. but i couldn't control the phone. so trash with it.
enter https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/usbb2k-api/
it's a open source driver for the device... it's a little tricky but i got it working.. sorta lol
so now i have dbus 0.23 installed and then i checked out the source of usbb2k
export CVS_RSH="ssh"
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/usbb2k-api co usbb2k-api
cd usbb2k-api
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
(at this point it will compile and hopefully no errors)
cd src
sudo ./usbb2k_api
(yes sudo or do "su -" and the run it. it must be run by root...)

now the testing part... tail /var/log/messages should say something like
usbb2k_api[5355]: usbb2k init ok
so now you go to the tools directory...

cd ..
cd tools
sudo ./api_connect /tmp/usbb2k.sock
then you should have a prompt... watch out for that var/log/message
do fun stuff like
SWITCH USB
RING 1
and see if the phone rings
answering and putting the phone off the hook produces messages also.
if you made it this far, you can now try the tricky part...

they dont support skype, but it's possible if you have the right script... i have found one in the dev-list http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/usbb2k-a...0/msg00000.html
and it run! i've found a little bug or something.. the thing worked (the script is very crude but does the job sort of ) but it didn't rang! i watched that the communication from the pythong script was truncating 1char! so i edited the python script and searched for the line that said
self.s.send("RING 1")
and added an extra "0" in there.. making self.s.send("RING 10")
the thing that was transmitted was in fact RING 1 so the phone now rings and it's working OK.. sorta
it won't make calls nor any other advanced stuff, only accept & ring. i edited the script to make "predefined calls" in the event of 1 keypress of the phone.

anyway hope i didn't make a big mess out of it:p

still, i would like complete support of the thing.. but it's better than nothing

(edit: i couldn't post this cause i was writting the phrase " cd .. / tools " (with the .. besides the / and the tools) and it gave me internal server error. what gives? lol)

Many tx Zipleen!
Just a problem with the python script:



Any ideas?

Yes, its really annoying just like the Skype for Linux story. I have been in touch with the manufacturers who confirm they are not working on any Linux compatibility at the moment. For all you owners of the EasyBlue telbox the following link may be useful, a bit different from the link above:

http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/u.../usbb2k-api-dev

[quote=zipleen]finnally after 4 hours of banging with the head in the table lol
ok i got it working:P sort of lol

[...]

so now i have dbus 0.23 installed and then i checked out the source of usbb2k
export CVS_RSH="ssh"
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/usbb2k-api co usbb2k-api
cd usbb2k-api
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
(at this point it will compile and hopefully no errors)
cd src
sudo ./usbb2k_api
(yes sudo or do "su -" and the run it. it must be run by root...)[/quote]


I have problems with the procedure. I get:




I'm on Ubuntu 6.06 and I *do* have automake installed. Any ideas? Thanks!

Any ideas?

Try running:



Then do configure and make and it'll work.

What is a B2k? And, who maintains skypemate?


-Thufir

******@******:~/usbb2k-api$ bash: sh ./autogen.sh
bash: bash:: command not found



Still it doesn't work...

Simply looking at what's inside the directory would help.
There's no file named autogen.sh, instead there is autoconf.sh. It's not an executable, but that's easily changed. Do:

And then:

If all goes well, you should then have an executable called usbb2k_api in the src/ directory. Now to install that you need to run (as root):

Voila.

Is this any use ?

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=67560 (I thought i would plug my software a bit)

I've never tried the linux skypemate but this should work for making basic phone calls with the latest version of skype it uses x11 messageing so no d-bus problems.