i been using an outstanding program on my Win ME machine called Skype, much better that Yahoo Messenger. Been chatting with an old girlfriend in Oregon cross-country & exchanging files too. Sent her a 14 MB file last night no problems. If u can get ur chat friends to try it, i would give it a try. http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/

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FYI gaim supports: AIM/ICQ Gadu-Gadu Groupwise IRC Jabber MSN Napster Yahoo Zephyr Kopete supports pretty much the same. I have no prolems connecting to Yahoo with Gaim. Are you going through a firewall? Are you using a proxy server?

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HI 3Dave... no firewall no proxy server. Just plain LAN connection only. it works well in Windows but y not in linux with GAIM and Kopete ? anything to be done pls let me know .. thanks

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Hello still no luck either with gaim nor with any other interface. pls help me Thanks

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"...no firewall no proxy server. Just plain LAN connection only..." So you must be going out through some sort of gateway/firewall. How are you connected to the net? Can you browse the internet OK? How about FTP etc? Can you telnet OK to scs.msg.yahoo.com port 5050? You may have a firewall enabled in Mandiva, what is the output of "/usr/sbin/iptables -L"? How about the output of "/sbin/route"? It should show your default gateway....

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i wil surely chek up the command lines that have been given above. but in the meanwhile i am going thru a gw and i am able to connect to the internet. i am able to browse the internet very well no problem at all. FTP also i am able to access. how to enable the telnet OK to scs.msg.yahoo.com port 5050 ? can u help me here. i will give you the output of /usr/bin/iptables -L after chking. will do the needful and get back to you...in the meanwhile throw some light on telnet also. thanks .. JB

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From the command line: $ telnet scs.msg.yahoo.com 5050 If there is something blocking the way you will get a response like: Trying 216.155.193.178... Trying 216.155.193.179... Trying 216.155.193.180... Trying 216.155.193.174... Trying 216.155.193.175... Trying 216.155.193.176... Trying 216.155.193.177... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused If successful the output is: Trying 216.155.193.177... Connected to scs.msg.yahoo.com. Escape character is '^]'. It does sound like you might need to open up ports on your gw/router....

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Hi dave 1) the follwoing is the output of /usr/sbin/iptables -L :- Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination 2) the following is the output of /sbin/route :- Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 10.11.74.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 3)while invoking telnet it says :- bash: telnet : command not found Please tell me how to proceed from here Thanks for your valuable time JB

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1) Your local firewall is open, everything is being accepted so this is not the problem. 2) Your default gateway is 10.11.74.1, what IP are you using for the computer? Are you using the correct subnet? The output if "/sbin/ifconfig" will help. 3) You don't have telnet installed! How are you setting up your network IP address etc on the computer? Is it done via DHCP or is it static? I still do belive that somewhere between you and the internet is a router/firewall which just needs the correct ports opened? What sort of network is this? School, home, work? You may need to speak to the sys admin. How are you connecting to the internet? Dial-up, ISDN, ADSL etc?

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Hi Dave The /sbin/ifconfig gives the following results :- eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A1:B0:09:D2:C5 inet addr:10.11.74.114 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3020 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1790 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1013192 (989.4 Kb) TX bytes:257140 (251.1 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1c00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:254 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:254 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:15892 (15.5 Kb) TX bytes:15892 (15.5 Kb) Next : I am using the following commands in the Konsole to connect my eth0 to access the network: ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 [my ip address here 10.11.74.114] ifconfig eth0 up route add -net default gw 10.11.74.1 that is it .. I have a broadband connection connected thru a LAN Card and thru a Login Interface given by the ISP. then i give the command "sifyconnect --login" to login to my user account and pwd .. that is it .. in the konsole. Afterwards i am able to access the internet. No problem here how to run yahoo messenger. i have even downloaded rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm and tried to install both thru konsole and rpm drake. it tries to install and when i issue the command in the konsole "ymessenger" it brings up a window in the KDE and asks me to press Next and then the License window comes for me to accept and afterwards i get a message in the Konsole window "Segmentation Fault" and it doesnt go any further. What is the problem now ? i nosed in for "Segmentation fault" it says something to do with the memory. my memory is 512 MB .. i hav a PIII 750 Mhz Intel Processor with 20 GB Hdd. kindly help me solve this problem. Thanks dave for all ur troubles JB

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Do you live in India? Sounds like you are connecting through Satyam/Sify. Aparently they use a firewall at your operator's end (see http://www.desitorrents.com/forums/showthread.php?s=102e15f393f893c16fea1aa22773e437&p=222037#post222037). You need to call and ask them to open up yahoo messenger ports. Here's a link with some useful info: http://search1.cc.dcn.yahoo.com/cct_search.php?ui_mode=answer&prior_transaction_id=124317&action_code=5&highlight_info=16787856,10,19&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fhelp.yahoo.com%2Fhelp%2Fus%2Fmessenger%2Fwin%2Fsignin%2Fsignin-02.html&answer_id=7092656#__highlight Regarding the seg fault....just try a different program, you should have gaim or kopete already installed. If not you should find an RPM on one of the mandrake installation CDs. You can install it with: # rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/path/to/packagename.rpm

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Hi Dave I went thru the above sites the first one (desitorrents) doesnt show up anything. the second site gives me some details but as i am a novice as far as LINUX is concerned I am at a loss to c how to use them for my purpose. I have GAIM and Kapote installed in my machine both of them try to connect to Yahoo but no avail. Yes you are right I live in India and connect thru SIFY Broadband connection. Why should i ask them to open up the ports when it is already opened and working in WINDOWS. there is absoloutely no pblm in windows. I personally feel this is something system configuration specific problem the i need to address, ofcourse with your valuable help. Please throw some light further. Thanks Dave JB

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Start up gaim, got to Help > Debug Window and then try to connect. It may provide some clues.... What is the output of "traceroute scs.msg.yahoo.com"?

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Gaim or centericq have an MSN messenger plugin. Biban bora

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slighthly off topic, but if you want most of the features of yahoo messenger in Linux, try gyach(http://www4.infi.net/~cpinkham/gyach). You can use your webcam with gyach unlike the the RPMS provided by yahoo. Chivas G. Sicam, RHCE, MCP, SCJP http://www.sicam.ws

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