Speakerphone for Ubuntu 8.10?

[Alex Beamish]

Hi folks,

Looks like I might have to be on a work conference call tonight, using Skype.

I had Skype working when my system was using Fedora 8, but an upgrade
to F9 went badly so I moved to Ubuntu 8.10. I installed Skype recently
but couldn't get it to work with my USB headset. Now I'm looking at
have a colleague over for the conference call, so I'd like to have
some sort of speakerphone setup.

I've googled for this (skype ubuntu speakerphone -headset) and found
this page from 2.5 years ago:

  http://www.hotvoipnews.com/blog_46.shtml

The unit sure looks cool, but I'm not sure I can source one here in
Toronto in the next six hours .. unless someone on the list can a)
suggest a local store that might carry this unit or b) tell me that
using a bog-standard microphone plugged into my sound card should work
fine.

Comments?

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Alex Beamish
Toronto, Ontario
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