I am currently using both SUSE Enterprise Desktop 10 and OpenSuSE 10.2.
I am looking to buy a USB phone to use with Skype on my Dell laptop. How have you all found the USB phones on Linux.
Thanks,
John

Same thing, I use everyday Skype on Linux (although the version is not improving at all, and I am looking for another solution that'll enable the videoconferencing: MSN on Kopete? Gizmo? Wengo?), and I'd like to use a Skype phone. Unfortunately, the models I've seen require Windoze... Too bad Skype doesn't want my money, I guess I'll just have to spend it somewhere else.
Bye for now, and Good Bye for some day soon...

The b2k telboxes from yealink work pretty well. I'm trying to get them to donate some of the p1k and p4k phones, if they do I will write an interface for them.

the driver is available here: http://kb2kskype.sourceforge.net/

Have you guys tried the Windoze trick:
http://www.gruups.com/usbskype

After all it's just using different command line parameters to have skype save to the directory you want (which of course would be in the usb stick)

Check this one :
http://www.von-phone.com/yealink_p8d_skype_phone.php

I just read on the page, it does support FC3 (Fedora Core 3) don't know if it would worked on SUSE. Contact the seller and maybe they have the right driver to run on suse.


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I have a Sony Skype mouse and it works great! It is just recognised as a new sound card. I think the ringing doesn't work though...

I use SUSE 10.2. I ungzipped to /usr/bin and the accessory dirs to /usr/share/skype as the README said, but that doesn't say and I don't know where the skype.conf file should go. I've never used skype before now, and have no intention of buying any sound input or output devices for my Linux computer other than a Skype phone.

I bought an XACT iVo Internet Telephone Skype compatible model XVP620. When I plugged its USB cable in the display lit up with "YLd-2005 1230". The micro manual that came with it says it should say "VOIP Phone", but then it also says I should run SkypeMate, which obviously is only for windoz. Is there some Linux/open source substitute for SkypeMate I can use.

In sound devices I have selected "VOIP USB Phone (hw:default,0)" for sound in, sound out and ringing. The other option is (plughw:default,0). Nothing ever happens with either setting. Make a test sound does nothing. Make a test call brings up a tiny little non-resizable window that says "Call Failed: Problem with Audio P". Obviously there should be more to the message, at least if it is to have any use to anyone, but there is no apparent way to reach it.