asterisk users - Jun 2006 - Unlock / install of Cisco 7940 IP Phone ?

Hello Guys,

I just got my new Cisco 7940* IP Phone

Unfortunately I can't find out how to setup this phone.
Am I really that stupid ;-) ? I've read the Cisco Manuel, but everything I
tried did not help anything.


1.	When I turn on the phone it will display "Configuring
VLAN....Configuring IP".. This message will not disappear. 

2.	I can see that the phone has a local IP. I can also access the IP
over my LAN with http (only http, telnet does not work)

3	My Main menu will this show " Configuring VLAN....Configuring
IP".."
But if I click on settings, network settings it will show me the local IP of
the phone

Now, my question, what do I do wrong ? how can I get that phone installed
with a sip image ?

I tried to unlock the phone with **# but that does not do anything.
Also, there is no unlock function in the phone menu (phone settings)

This is a new Cisco phone, no sip image on it.

Thank you for the help

Matt

You have to press settings, then **#, and wait a moment to make sure it 
unlocks.  Then you can configure a tftp server to use.

The alternative is to configure your dhcp server with a tftp server.  On 
linux, that would be "next-server <ip/host>" in the subnet
section.  TFTP
server on windows.

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Mateo Meier wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> I just got my new Cisco 7940* IP Phone
>
> Unfortunately I can't find out how to setup this phone.
> Am I really that stupid ;-) ? I've read the Cisco Manuel, but
everything I
> tried did not help anything.
>
>
> 1.	When I turn on the phone it will display "Configuring
> VLAN....Configuring IP".. This message will not disappear.
>
> 2.	I can see that the phone has a local IP. I can also access the IP
> over my LAN with http (only http, telnet does not work)
>
> 3	My Main menu will this show " Configuring VLAN....Configuring
IP".."
> But if I click on settings, network settings it will show me the local IP
of
> the phone
>
> Now, my question, what do I do wrong ? how can I get that phone installed
> with a sip image ?
>
> I tried to unlock the phone with **# but that does not do anything.
> Also, there is no unlock function in the phone menu (phone settings)
>
> This is a new Cisco phone, no sip image on it.
>
> Thank you for the help
>
> Matt
>
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Aaron Daniel
Computer Systems Technician
Sam Houston State University
amdtech@shsu.edu
(936) 294-4198

To convert the phone to SIP you have to unlock and set the TFTP server to your
TFTP server  address as explained below. But...


you also need to make sure you have a SIP image in the root directory of your
TFTP server and also edit the OS79XX.TXT file to contain only the SIP image name
(no .bin or .sbin extension). This should tell the phone what image it should be
running and will then start a tftp transaction to download the SIP image.

Once the SIP image is loaded on your phone, you will have to reset the TFTP
Server addresses again so it can then download the SIP configuration files
(SIPdefault.cnf and SIP<MAC>.cnf)

good luck!





 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Aaron Daniel <amdtech@shsu.edu>
> You have to press settings, then **#, and wait a moment to make sure it 
> unlocks.  Then you can configure a tftp server to use.
> 
> The alternative is to configure your dhcp server with a tftp server.  On 
> linux, that would be "next-server <ip/host>" in the subnet
section.  TFTP
> server on windows.
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Mateo Meier wrote:
> 
> > Hello Guys,
> >
> > I just got my new Cisco 7940* IP Phone
> >
> > Unfortunately I can't find out how to setup this phone.
> > Am I really that stupid ;-) ? I've read the Cisco Manuel, but
everything I
> > tried did not help anything.
> >
> >
> > 1.	When I turn on the phone it will display "Configuring
> > VLAN....Configuring IP".. This message will not disappear.
> >
> > 2.	I can see that the phone has a local IP. I can also access the IP
> > over my LAN with http (only http, telnet does not work)
> >
> > 3	My Main menu will this show " Configuring VLAN....Configuring
IP".."
> > But if I click on settings, network settings it will show me the local
IP of
> > the phone
> >
> > Now, my question, what do I do wrong ? how can I get that phone
installed
> > with a sip image ?
> >
> > I tried to unlock the phone with **# but that does not do anything.
> > Also, there is no unlock function in the phone menu (phone settings)
> >
> > This is a new Cisco phone, no sip image on it.
> >
> > Thank you for the help
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> 
> -- 
> Aaron Daniel
> Computer Systems Technician
> Sam Houston State University
> amdtech@shsu.edu
> (936) 294-4198
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