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Henry Bremridge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 07:27:14PM +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > > >>> ps and thanks to rob for getting the sweex wireless apparently working on his >>> machine (we could not get any wireless connection going while there). >>> >> No problem Henry. I should have brought along my router we could have >> tested it properly then. > > 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) > >> 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 > Okay, I've managed to get a webcam working. I downloaded Kopete on Ubuntu which supports the usual chat clients (MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, ICQ etc). I managed to connect to my other half who was using Yahoo Messenger on Windows. It's a bit choppy (probably sending it out to the internet and back rather than going over the LAN) but it works. This link may help: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete%20Webcam%20Support&comzone=show It gives links to webcam drivers which should give you some details of what is supported. My webcam is a Chicony Twinklecam. It's not great quality under Linux and it uses the SN9C10x driver. Still it works which is something. Actually, while I think about it the PC Line PCL-100K webcam from PC World DID work when I got one about 6 months ago when I started looking for a suitable studio webcam for Gemini FM. It's £7.99 inc VAT. Do a search for 721033 on PC World's web site. The camera itself is a low res camera (352x288). Make sure if you do get this one that you get the PCL-100K and not the PCL-300K which is a higher resolution (I think it's labelled as a VGA camera). The PCL-300K didn't work. Next thing is getting sound working. I don't have a suitable headset at the moment so I can't test that bit, although it *should* work. At least I assume it should. 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