i have a question about the difference in connections, in pidgin instant messenger if my computer is connected through cat5 you can text cell phones if i disconnect the cat5 and use a wifi pci card texting a cell phone stops working, i use to work in ubuntu 8.04 and it stopped so i upgraded to ubuntu 10.04 and texting a cell with pidgin still did not work so now i have moved to xubuntu 12.04 and texting a cell phone using a pci wifi card doesn't work. so i got on the pidgin mailing list and they say it should but it doesn't.
i'v tried three different computers and two different wifi cards one intel and the other linksys the computer will text another computer just fine but will not text a cell phone i'm lost at this point. also i have a dell 1525 laptop with a pci wifi card in it and it does the same thing it is running ubuntu 10.04 i have 10 other desktop computers with ubuntu and xubuntu running pidgin on cat5 and they all with the same aim account text a cell phone. below is what i got back from the pidgin mailing list klein spake unto us the following wisdom: > there seems to be a bug when texting a cell phone from a computer that > is connected to the Internet via wifi and pci, i tried connecting a > linksys wifi usb adapter to another computer of mine and well that > really don't work well. This is just plain not true. You're barking up the wrong tree. I don't know why your AIM SMS messaging isn't working, but wifi is not even in the picture. Ethan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
