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Henry Bremridge wrote: > Works well at home: or at least as long as I did not try and manually set it up! > On roaming it works really well (Sweex wireless card from Trago at £12 odd) Thats good. I wonder if we should have a page on the DCGLUG WIKI giving details of what hardware does work and where we got it from? >> Talking about web cams, the software I was thinking of for Linux is >> called Motion. It runs in the background as a daemon and tracks motion >> on your web cam (or TV/Video capture card) and can either record the >> output as a JPG or MPEG4 AVI video. It has an embedded web server to >> help being accessible from the internet. >> > Will try this asap: been busy transferring files from xp to $%"!!^ vista and from > xp to Ubuntu. :( >> Although it would be great if GAIM (or whatever it's called now) had >> support for webcams with audio connecting to MSN Messenger on Windows XP >> (or Yahoo messenger on XP), this might solve your problems. >> > Or yahoo under Ubuntu? May try that > The last time I tried the Linux version of Yahoo Messenger it didn't support video and was a bit ropey, although this may have changed (I haven't tried it in a while). It's something I need to get working, I'm getting grief from my ex-wife about me setting up a webcam so she can talk to our daughters. I refuse to install XP just for that! Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html