If you want to load magicjack via vmware or some other sandbox client, feel free, just don't expect the ease of use the plug&play device provides in mac and windows natively as of late 2009. Sadly, currently I have found NO methods of running magicjack on ubuntu except through an entire virtual machine, which really defeats the purpose of trying to run the thing on ubuntu at all by adding a few layers of complexity to an otherwise very simple and reliable device. Let's see if anyone shares my opinions or experiences about the product. It displays the "one minute of patience" or whatever message and when it changes it disappears.Ĭ'mon Dan! (Dan Borislow, magicjack maker) You can do it! Save us the messing about! I can browse and find the autorun app, but I cannot get it to start all the way. The device was recognized after I added my virtual xp machine to the usb group. The closest I've come was with VirtualBox, but still couldn't make calls. When they're both on high priority I've had nothing but perfect call quality, no drops, great sound etc etc.Īs far as getting it working in Linux goes, I've been SOL as well. Also "COICmanager.exe" will help as well. I had to reflash the device and lost all the contacts and other data saved within it.Īnother 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. 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.
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. 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 has "low system overhead" because it requires low bandwidth from the data connection, it uses a pretty decent amount of processing power.Īt current, the MagicJack device cannot even plug into a USB Hub because of this exact same reason. MagicJack will most likely not be able to run directly plugged into the router because of the processing it requires.
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.
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?īecause 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. I have a question on what I really would like to know.