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[webmin]

Hi all,

New to VoIP in general and this looked like the place for UK VoIPers.

I currently have a phone number with Voipfone and have been given a Cisco 7940 phone so initially looking to get them working together. I believe I need to install the latest SIP firmware and configure it to be able to use all the phones available features with Voipfone, so will be doing a lot of reading up.

Any pointers to achieve the above welcome :)

Look forward to being part of the community and learning the ways of the UK VoIP forums...

[WelshPaul]

Good Morning,

Welcome to the forums, always nice to see a new member. :)

It has been some time since I last used a Cisco 79xx IP phone. Check out this post - Cisco IP Phones 79xx Series SIP/VoIP Firmware Files if you haven't done so already; and yes the first thing you need to do is load the sip firmware on the phone.

Second, you need a pc, laptop or netbook on the same LAN as the phone, install a tftp client on the computer and make a note of the IP address of the computer as the phone will need to pull its config files from the computer with the tftp client installed.

[webmin]

Thanks for the welcome and information.

I had stumbled on that post you referred to and plan to work through it as soon as I get the phone. I'll let you know how I get on

[webmin]

I've followed the guide but keep getting the following errors:

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Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:14:A9:10:09:24 [28/10 17:05:06.484]
DHCP: proposed address 192.168.1.2 [28/10 17:05:06.484]
Rcvd DHCP Rqst Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:14:A9:10:09:24 [28/10 17:05:06.500]
Previously allocated address 192.168.1.2 acked [28/10 17:05:06.500]
Connection received from 192.168.1.2 on port 50437 [28/10 17:05:06.656]
Read request for file <CTLSEP0014A9100924.tlv>. Mode octet [28/10 17:05:06.656]
File <CTLSEP0014A9100924.tlv> : error 2 in system call CreateFile The system cannot find the file specified. [28/10 17:05:06.656]
Connection received from 192.168.1.2 on port 50438 [28/10 17:05:06.687]
Read request for file <SEP0014A9100924.cnf.xml>. Mode octet [28/10 17:05:06.687]
Using local port 1239 [28/10 17:05:06.687]
<SEP0014A9100924.cnf.xml>: sent 14 blks, 7029 bytes in 0 s. 0 blk resent [28/10 17:05:06.718]
Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:14:A9:10:09:24 [28/10 17:05:21.765]
DHCP: proposed address 192.168.1.2 [28/10 17:05:21.765]
Rcvd DHCP Rqst Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:14:A9:10:09:24 [28/10 17:05:21.796]
Previously allocated address 192.168.1.2 acked [28/10 17:05:21.796]
Connection received from 192.168.1.2 on port 50430 [28/10 17:05:21.859]
Read request for file <SIPDefault.cnf>. Mode octet [28/10 17:05:21.859]
File <SIPDefault.cnf> : error 2 in system call CreateFile The system cannot find the file specified. [28/10 17:05:21.859]
Connection received from 192.168.1.2 on port 50431 [28/10 17:05:21.875]
Read request for file <SIP0014A9100924.cnf>. Mode octet [28/10 17:05:21.875]
File <SIP0014A9100924.cnf> : error 2 in system call CreateFile The system cannot find the file specified. [28/10 17:05:21.890]
Connection received from 192.168.1.2 on port 50432 [28/10 17:05:53.843]
Read request for file <SIP0014A9100924.cnf>. Mode octet [28/10 17:05:53.843]
File <SIP0014A9100924.cnf> : error 2 in system call CreateFile The system cannot find the file specified. [28/10 17:05:53.843]
Connection received from 192.168.1.2 on port 50433 [28/10 17:06:24.656]
Read request for file <SIP0014A9100924.cnf>. Mode octet [28/10 17:06:24.656]
File <SIP0014A9100924.cnf> : error 2 in system call CreateFile The system cannot find the file specified. [28/10 17:06:24.656]

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

Thanks.

[webmin]

Hmm, I take I'm using the right file:

sip/cisco/79xx/P0S3-08-12-00.zip

and that is the only file I need from there (apart from the other files metioned in the guide)?

Thanks for any help.

[WelshPaul]

I just wrote out a post only to lose it because of this stupid iPhone and buggy old ios 8!

I don't have access to a pc until tomorrow morning so I will post back then. From what I can make out it can't find the config files.

[webmin]

Ah, sorry to hear, very frustrating - thanks for trying though!

I see the instructions say to:

Download the file XMLDefault.cnf.xml from here and copy/paste it in to the TFTP boot folder (/var/lib/tftpboot)

I take it when using TFTP on windows this file has to go in TFTP program folder? I've tried so many configurations with all of the files I think it might be best for me to just wait...

Thank you.

[webmin]

Also, further examination shows the phone to be already running a SIP firmware:

P0S3-08-6-00

Will this make a difference?

Thanks.

[WelshPaul]

You set the folder your using to store the files, example... Create a folder on your windows desktop PC called 7940 then place all files and firmware in this folder. Launch the ftp server program and set the folder we just created above as the default tftp folder location.

Another great guide https://support.gradwell.com/entries/23 ... figuration

[WelshPaul]

Also, further examination shows the phone to be already running a SIP firmware:

P0S3-08-6-00

Will this make a difference?

Thanks.

Nope, won't make a difference at all.

All it needs is the Config files now.

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See the C:\temp you need to change this to the 7940 folder we created as mentioned above.

[webmin]

Thanks for the help.

From reading the link you supplied and over at voipfone forum I should also be including files :

SIPDefault.cnf
SIPmacaddress.cnf (replace macaddress with the units MAC)

I didn't realise this so maybe this is the problem :/

[WelshPaul]

Yes these are your custom config files that provision the phone.