asterisk users - Mar 2005 - 3COM 3101 SIP

I have been (un?)lucky enough to be given a 3COM 3101 phone as a demo to play
with and see if I can get it to work with ASTERISK.  Supposedly it is SIP, but
there is absolutely no documentation with the phone and it doesn't seem to
have very many programmable options.  3COM doesn't seem to have any
information on their knowledge base about this particular phone.

Has anyone had any luck getting one of these to work?  It's a nice looking
little phone, but so far that's my entire assessment.  I am at a loss as to
how to get Asterisk to recognize it since it doesn't seem to allow for me to
set a username, secret, or for that matter anything more than an IP address.

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, PA wrote:
> I have been (un?)lucky enough to be given a 3COM 3101 phone as a demo to
> play with and see if I can get it to work with ASTERISK.  Supposedly it
> is SIP, but there is absolutely no documentation with the phone and it
> doesn't seem to have very many programmable options.  3COM doesn't
seem
> to have any information on their knowledge base about this particular
> phone.
> 
> Has anyone had any luck getting one of these to work?  It's a nice
> looking little phone, but so far that's my entire assessment.  I am at
a
> loss as to how to get Asterisk to recognize it since it doesn't seem to
> allow for me to set a username, secret, or for that matter anything more
> than an IP address.
A while back (quite a while actually) someone on the list mentioned that 
the 3com phones download their program from the 3com pbx every time they 
power up. Without the program they are unable to operate. All this is 
second- or third hand information.

Once bootstrapped they may be regular sip phones. Try searching the list 
for "3com 3102". 

Peter