Hi Matt, Matt Harrison wrote on 03/08/09 17:19: > I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. > It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open.
> I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately > I'm unable to get it working on my gentoo laptop. > > I've so far tried Pidgin, which seems to hang eternally when I try to > connect, and I've tried looking for alternatives such as ymessenger but it > seems they have been retired from portage. > > Does anyone have any advice on this subject? At the moment I'm having to VNC > into my desktop machine just to use messenger when I'm out and about. Installing Pidgin 2.5.8 fixed the hanging session initiation problems caused by recent Yahoo network changes. Cheers, Dave
