Hi,
What usb headet works?
 pretty much any headset will work, provided it is a recent distro.

One thing you can check in the store:
  If the headset box comes with a driver disk, it won't work. 
  The absence of a driver disk implies the headset only uses standard USB
   signalling.


On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Nick Rout wrote:

> pardon me but why are people on this list supporting proprietary skype
> when open standards are so important to linux users (not to mention life
> the universe & everything)?

Because skype works in the hard places. Without fuss, really easily.

The hardest voip connection to setup is where both parties are behind 
different firewalls, and where both parties do not have the ability (or 
access) to add pinholes to the firewall.

for protocols such as sip, h323, this is a problem - how do they set up a 
call?

Further, while SIP is an industry standard, it is not 100.00% adherred to. 
There are over a dozen open source implementations of sip - all of 
differing quality and interoperableness.

SIP has been described as the largest denial of service attack on the IETF 
working process - the number of RFCs dealing with SIP is simply huge.

H.323 has far higher level of interoperability - the openh323 project has 
become the industry standard.

Skype does have a significant problem for the corporate world. If the boss 
decides that all communications into/outof the company are monitored 
(which is reasonable - the boss has supplied the environment), how can the 
boss monitor a skype conversation? - It is quite hard to do. V hard.

Derek.
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IndraNet Technologies Ltd.
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