Re: Got skype 4.2 to connect again

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

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> Works like a charm! How in the world did you figure that out?
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> Hugo
Hi Hugo,

to figure this out was by chance and a littlen bit thinking.

Someone in the skype forum told, he installed skype 4.2 and it connected. So I 
downgraded skypeo from 4.3 to 4.2 and at the first start it connected, too.

Then I disconnected from the skype-servers and tried to reconnect. There was 
no way to reconnect. However, now I knew, connecting is possible, but the 
server inhibits. 

Now I looked into the package, the only main difference I saw in the linux 
package, that the skype binary was different. The skype.conf and other files 
were the same.

As I am no coder, my idea was, that the skype server just check the version of 
the binary. the command skype --version told me the version, and I thought, 
this version must be named somewhere in the binary. 

The rest was simple: I opened the binary with a hexeditor and searched for the 
version: 4.2.0.11 and then changed this to the actual version. Doing so, the 
old binary behaves as the 4.2 version, but tells the skype-server, hey, I am 
4.3.0.37. That way the skype server allows connecting again.

I am no coder, a real coder would have disassembled the 4.3 skype binary and 
put alsa support back. My way was much more simple and more a "hack". :)

Have fun!

Hans