Asterisk 1.8+Google Voice fixed

The Asterisk team released a small patch that fixes the protocol issue that was keeping Asterisk 1.8 users from dialing out through Google Voice.

You can apply the patch against version 1.8.0 or 1.8.1. And if you've never used the patch command before, it's easy:

Go to the Asterisk bug tracker and get the attached file named fix
Put it in your Asterisk source directory (the root, where the configure script, Makefile, and other such files exist). Call it gtalkfix.patch, to be a little less ambiguous.
From that same directory, run the command patch < gtalkfix.patch . If it says it can't find the file to patch, specify channels/chan_gtalk.c. Oh, and if you don't have the patch command, just yum install patch first.
You should see something like this:
patching file channels/chan_gtalk.c Hunk #1 succeeded at 193 with fuzz 2 (offset -3 lines). Hunk #2 succeeded at 463 (offset -5 lines). Hunk #3 succeeded at 1006 (offset -3 lines). Hunk #4 succeeded at 1814 (offset -5 lines).
Now run make and you will see it compile chan_gtalk again. Of course, if you are applying it against the raw distribution, you'll go through the entire build process.
make install and start Asterisk and you'll be able to call through Google Voice again.

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