Tres Finocchiaro through your wisdom and guidance i believe i have a better understanding of what is going on, in my case old aol screen names for some reason doesn't work with pidgin when texting a cell phone.
my wifes computer dell i3 win7 64bit when she used pidgin to verify her aol account as you instructed, her cell contacts disappeared from her list in pidgin when she sings on to aol they are still there though. when i verified my old aol screen name it didn't do anything, no box poped up nothing. but the new aim screen name work just fine and i'm happy thank you Tres using pci wifi the fact still remains that in xp pro aim software with my old screen name works fine and in pidgin same computer weather in xubuntu or xp pro will not send a text message to a cell phone, and if the computer is hooked up with cat5 pidgin works fine. after 7 or 8 years of using linux, ubuntu 5.04 - 12.04 and open sourse software i have never ran across a rude person or unhelpful person till i ran across Ethan. _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support