Running Magic jack!!!

[suhasdude]

Hi Guys,
I was interested in running MagicJack(VOIP) on Ubuntu...i tried finding for answers...but the reply was it is not supported on linux....if anybody has successfully installed it...plz help me out with it.
Regards,
Suhas

[xenolalia]

Hi!

These might be of help:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=511689
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=893755
http://blog.laptopmag.com/magicjack-...rvice-and-more
http://www.broadbandreports.com/foru...e-XP-MagicJack

Good luck!
Xenolalia

[hifly1231]

For anyone who's interested, although they don't have a specific date yet, I spoke with MagicJack day before yesterday, and they are in the process of developing a Linux driver as we speak. They said that it will be out sometime this year.

[bone2006]

What's their phone number? So more of us can call.

It all has to do with supply and demand and most people think there's not enough demand for Linux users. If more people called or show they want it if there's Linux support than they would sell more and have the drivers for Linux.

I have a question on what I really would like to know. I am curious if they release a linux driver, would or could you use that driver on a router that is flashed with dd-wrt?
Because I have a router that has a usb port and I would love to not have to turn on my computer to use magic jack and just put it in the router. When I'm traveling, it's nice to just put magic jack in my pocket and go on a trip and plug it into a laptop running ubuntu.

[kirkmeaux]

would loveto get my majic jack on m ununtu....I'm getting tired fo running windows just to use my phone.

[Old *ix Geek]

Definitely call or write and let MagicJack know that you're interested in a Linux version. As I always say, it's up to us to let companies know that there's a market for Linux stuff!

[HtmlGifted]

would loveto get my majic jack on m ununtu....I'm getting tired fo running windows just to use my phone.

dude i feel ya... switched to ubuntu completely.. was tired of microsofts bs upgrades.... now just need to see what i can do to get my magic jack software stripped down to work.. on ubuntu... am going to see what i can mesh together for a gdi package installer for the application... but .. not liking the fact that when plugged in to usb drive.. it does not appear on my ubuntu.. need to solve this first..

[djuke04]

I have a question on what I really would like to know. I am curious if they release a linux driver, would or could you use that driver on a router that is flashed with dd-wrt?
Because I have a router that has a usb port and I would love to not have to turn on my computer to use magic jack and just put it in the router. When I'm traveling, it's nice to just put magic jack in my pocket and go on a trip and plug it into a laptop running ubuntu.

MagicJack will most likely not be able to run directly plugged into the router because of the processing it requires. While it has "low system overhead" because it requires low bandwidth from the data connection, it uses a pretty decent amount of processing power.

At current, the MagicJack device cannot even plug into a USB Hub because of this exact same reason. If another device attached to the hub were to suddenly demand too large of a portion of the bandwidth for the hub, it would cause problems with the functioning of the device. While it is "booting up," the device checks to make sure it has it's own dedicated USB connection to the south bridge to avoid this exact sort of issue.

I forced the device to pass this step and boot regardless of having a dedicated connection or not, and sure enough after a data transfer from a hard drive also connected to the Hub during a phonecall, the device froze up, or shut down, but just stopped working. I had to reflash the device and lost all the contacts and other data saved within it.

Another neat little trick I tried that has worked, is that if you are experiencing low sound or overall call quality, you can open up the task manager, right click on the "magicjack.exe" process and increase the priority of the process. Also "COICmanager.exe" will help as well. When they're both on high priority I've had nothing but perfect call quality, no drops, great sound etc etc.

As far as getting it working in Linux goes, I've been SOL as well. The closest I've come was with VirtualBox, but still couldn't make calls. The device was recognized after I added my virtual xp machine to the usb group. I can browse and find the autorun app, but I cannot get it to start all the way. It displays the "one minute of patience" or whatever message and when it changes it disappears.

C'mon Dan! (Dan Borislow, magicjack maker) You can do it! Save us the messing about!

[jimmy the saint]

I know it isn't the same product, but I use Voipo for voip service. It's cheap, I haven't had any problems (except that tomato needs to be finessed for some reason) and it runs independent of the computer. Most of the time, if something doesn't play nice with linux I just look for something else. Maybe majicjack has something special that I am missing though. I've never tried it.

[jhanus10]

I have a question on what I really would like to know. I am curious if they release a linux driver, would or could you use that driver on a router that is flashed with dd-wrt?
Because I have a router that has a usb port and I would love to not have to turn on my computer to use magic jack and just put it in the router. When I'm traveling, it's nice to just put magic jack in my pocket and go on a trip and plug it into a laptop running ubuntu.[/QUOTE]

Now that would be awesome! It be smart of them to do so, but what about the monitor for contacts and such just forget about using it?