My 3com phone is displaying "waiting for dhcp

The phones aren't on the system. You have to make sure to turn on "Auto Discover Telephones" under the system settings, system configuration tab within "tab to it" (on 5.0 and older software) and System wide settings, auto discovery with newer software. If the phones are plugged into the same network as the phone system, the phones will automatically come up with extensions.

Hello.

NCP stands for Network Call Processor. There is a problem with communication. Since your server is running, reset your router (disconnect power, wait a few minutes, then reconnect) that supports your IP phone.


Hope this helps.

The default IP address of the device, depends on the status of the network where the device resides, but if the device is not connected to the network, or no DHCP server exists in the subnet where the device resides, you can get the default IP address of the device on the label on the right of the device rear panel.

There is a dhcp error. Reboot the phone.
When It says, DHCP * to program, press the STAR button.

when the IP address is displayed, change it by press 0.0.0.0. Where the dots are would be the star button. then press the #(pound) button until you see save new values, press star for yes.

Hopefully that will force it to grab another IP from teh DHCP server.

If not contact your admin.

Hi,

the DHCP server should be providing the address of the TFTP Server as DHCP Option 150. The most likely problems are:

Option 150 not defined, or not the correct IP address of the TFTP Server.
Or possibly your TFTP Server is not functioning properly.

If you have not Option 150 defined, the phone will use the default gateway as the TFTP server address.

Cheers, Simmo99.

sounds like your belkin router is not setup as a DHCP server or the DHCP is disabled. The DHCP in the belkin assigns addresses to the internal network, the error "waiting for network to initialize" means that the phone is waiting for an IP address, to which its not getting. When you connect directly to your modem you get an IP from your Internet service provider. I'll bet your internal network is setup using "static" ip addresses, if thats the case you will need to surf into the phones web console and set a static IP address. Or the opposite, enable DHCP in the belkin. hope that clarifies things a little.

Assuming you are talking about remote phones, you need to program the NCP (call processor) IP into the phones manually or add option 187 to your DHCP scope. The phones are able to DHCP the just also need to know what the IP address of the phone system to connect to is. If the phones are on your local network then this is all unnecessary. They work at layer 2 locally and don't need to use an IP address or DHCP.

I had the same problem since a bought it last week and I was going crazy. Install this firmware and everything will work fine:
http://booobi.googlepages.com/uperJerry_V2.8b4_Worldwide_A.rar

try using predefined IP addresses. Let each pc make it's own IP address and see if the conflicts continue, if they do, post again. :)