I purchased some 20 Polycom phones (brand new) for a very good price of around $165 each. Now I am having a nightmare in configuring them. I pulled the bootrom, SIP and config files from freedomphones.com, modified them for my need and and started configuring the phones. First couple of phones worked well, but I could not configure most of the remaining phones. They complain about "Error in loading bootrom". I suspect these are newer phones with newer bootrom than I have.
I contacted Polycom. After many emails and calls, finally got hold of someone in the SIP certification dept. He was very blatant in saying that Polycom has decided not to support Asterisk. When I asked him just to give us the bootrom, and SIP application firmware for the phones, he refused that too saying it was against Polycom Policy. Now I am thinking why the hell should I use Polycom phones when they are so knee jerk about the Asterisk community. They would not even give us legitimate firmware either. They are so arrogant (or stupid) to keep off such a significant user community. What do others feel about this issue. Should we just decide to stay away from Polycom phones? Or try to keep a copy of their firmware somewhere in the community like freedomphones.com? Thanks, -- jt > From: "James H. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom 1.4.1 firmware for IP500/IP600 > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" > <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I'm looking for a copy too. > > Jim > > James H. Thompson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Robert Augustyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'" > <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:00 PM > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom 1.4.1 firmware for IP500/IP600 > > > > If you have it, can I get a copy please, or possibly can you send it to the > > keeper of http://www.freedomphones.net/polycom/files/ > > I am looking for the latest boot image too. > > Thanks. > > robert > > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
