Slackware :: Using Gmail To Call Landlines And Mobile Devices?
Aug 31, 2010
Last week google introduced the capability of using gmail to call other people in Canada or the US on landlines or mobile devices. This capability is free for 2010.
I gave this a try in Slackware 13.1 and it works. To do this I was browsing with Fire Fox 3.6.8 and logged into my gmail account. On the left hand side of your e-mail account window you will see a phone icon.
1. When you click on that icon you will be prompted to install the gmail phone application.
2. A download window will open asking you to download a .deb source. I downloaded it and then I used src2pkg to create a Slackware package, then installed it.
3. Re-launch Fire Fox.
4. Click on the phone application and call up people. The voice quality is quite good, I experienced little lag.
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Jan 24, 2010
I just installed Ubuntu a few days ago and am loving it so far. There is, however, one huge problem which is spoiling all my fun: I can't access my gmail.
I'm using a Huawei E220 USB modem with T-Mobile UK. Plugged it in and was very impressed when I could set up my connection with minimal fuss. When I try to load gmail though, I get stuck with the statusbar saying 'Waiting for www.google.com...'. All other sites work fine (including google.com), and I don't get this problem when connecting though the Web 'n' Walk software in Windows XP. Has anyone got any ideas on how I can start working this out?
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Feb 1, 2010
I have a strange problem with my skype beta (latest) and Pidgin (gmail account) the problem is when i make voice call, it works fine for 1 or 2 mins then the voice drops and it connects after 20,30 secs.
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Mar 8, 2011
Last year before buying a new phone i synced my phone book to the ubuntu one cloud, i used a sony ericsson back then. Today i have a new one and want to sync those contacts I stored to my E63. On the one.ubuntu.com there were instructions on how to setup mobile devices for sync but I cannot find it anywhere, even on blogs.
I really need the phonebook, it's some 300 contacts I cannot save by hand.
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Oct 16, 2010
I'm trying to synce several windows mobile devices without much success. All the instructions I've read say that synce-dccm should be installed. I can't find it (or synce-odccm) either via synaptic or using apt-get install. Has this package been re-named or incorporated into something else or just redundant? I have the repository "launchpad.net/synce/ppa/ubuntu lucid" added to my sources.
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Oct 21, 2010
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 on Hp Mini 110. I can't get Mobile Broadband to work ... whenever I plug a USB device in, nothing is detected and there is no option to connect to mobile broadband. The devices I have tested are;
1. ZTE MF636
2. ZTE MF626
3. Huawei K3565-Z
4. Nokia 5800XM phone in PC Suite Mode (works on my other laptop running Ubuntu 10.04)
I have tried uninstalling with a full purge of USB-Modeswitch and then reinstalling it. This machine is upgraded from 10.04. It wasn't working in 10.04 either.
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Jan 25, 2010
I was wondering if anyone knew of a lightweight and easy-to-configure MTA, or any other way of sending messages from a command-line environment without too much of a fuss. I would only be sending messages through a single Gmail account, and would rather not bother with all of the sendmail configuration.
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Apr 19, 2010
It seems my sendmail (running in slackware 13.0) cannot send out emails correctly. I guess I need to tell it what is the smtp server to use. And, I heard, gmail's smtp server is available to use for this purpose. How to configure my sendmail this way?
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Mar 21, 2011
I have never tried to do anything 'remotely'.My 87 year old uncle lives in British Columbia, Canada and I live in Quebec, Canada.Here is what I would like to try to do:
I would like to connect to his PC from my PC and then set up a Gmail email account for him. I think that I am saying that I would like to be 'as if' I were sitting in front of his PC at his house.If this is possible, what software do I need on my Slackware PC to connect to his Windows PC? What software does he need on his PC?
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May 9, 2011
When I run the install of 'Gmail Backup' (from URL...) an error msg appears stating that I must have python2.5 - I presently have python2.8Is there any way to solve this without destroying my Slackware 13.37 installation?
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Mar 2, 2011
Is it possible to send an email to abc123@gmail.com directly from Console? If it is possible, do I need to do some 'configuration stuff' to get it to work? How do I start it?
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Aug 30, 2010
For anyone interested in testing new xorg stuff, here it is: [URL]. The good news is that this package set should work fine in either 13.1 or -current. The build box is 13.1, so I know they're compatible there; however, I'm running them on both 13.1 and -current systems, so I'm pretty sure they'll work on either. Be sure to read the NOTES file before you go digging around in PACKAGES.
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Oct 28, 2010
I would like to send emails form my server using my gmail account.Does anybody know how to do it?
OS = OPENSUSE 11.3 server installation - NO GUI....
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Aug 4, 2010
I had a fresh install of Slackware 13.1 up and running. I was looking to use an app which could only run on a gnome distro. So I installed gnomeslackbuild. Ran into dependency hell so I gave up the ghost and decided to reinstall.Re-install resulted in a message "Call to lnusertemp failed(temporary directories full).Had this before a different machine and sorted with another install at the time.Tried this but it keeps coming up with the same message. (4 installs later).Quote:
xset: bad font path element (#23) possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
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May 17, 2011
I am having a problem with my slackware version 12 server. I tried installing a new joomla theme from the rockettheme and its giving me the following error while loading the site.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagecreatefromjpeg()in /home/www/verticaltest/modules/mod_rokstories/thumbnail.inc.php on line 167
Thought it was a problem with gd library modules, but in info.php, its showing that gd is installed in the server. Pasting the result form info.php below..
If gd is installed, what should be the problem?
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Feb 5, 2010
I'm trying to add my own personal database of quotes for the fortune app to call when i open a terminal. I was able to successfully create the data base from a text file along the lines of this thread [URL] And it works when i type :$ fortune mydatabase The problem is, when i open a terminal i dont believe fortune knows to look for the new database, and im yet to see one of my quotes appear. If anyone can point me in the right direction as to where the command is issued to run fortune when i open the terminal
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May 31, 2011
I installed slackware on my laptop last night, :-) very happy. Can't wait to learn more about linux and even computers in general. I've already learnt heaps since entering the alternative operating system world. Anyways, i've got xfce up and running with slack now, created a new user 4 my self. And now i'd like to get some updates and stuff, but i need to use my mobile broadband. It's a telsta dongle If that changes the circumstances. How would i go about setting this up?
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Mar 10, 2010
Does anyone have current running with X on old ATI hardware? I have a laptop with ATI Mobile M7 and X completely fails to load. There are no errors in the Xorg log file. No failed modules or failure to load a module. The last line in the Xorg log says something to the effect of "VGA0 does not support DRI2".
When monitoring the processes while I start X, I can see xinit load, then X. After the line above is added to the log file, X dies. This is so bad that it takes my entire display with it so I cannot switch terminal. I cannot restart a tty session from a remote connection. The only way to get the display back is to reboot.
I tried the suggestions form this thread to no avail. Recompiling the kernel with "CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y" also had no effect. To get a working system I had to roll back to X from Slack 13, which works fine with current.
Did i missed something with the upgrade? Anything else I should try?
System info
Code:
Slackware-current 32 (with X from Slackware 13)
Kernel: generic-smp-2.6.33-smp
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
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Nov 29, 2010
In practice I have a script that call a java program that call a linux system command. The script if I run it, from a shell functions well,so it is not a java problem. The problem come out when i put this script in a crontab schedulation. The result in this case is that java do not execute the system command. I think it depends on crontab
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Jul 27, 2010
use any browser and go to gmail. i can't get gmail to load. if i browse on videos, links to videos don't work. they appear to be taking a long time to buffer, then a message appears saying to try again. sometimes, links on google search pages are all dead. yahoo mail loads as far as logging me in, then i get a page with all dead links.
i'm using a laptop at several locations that have free public wifi. at some places, everything works perfectly normally. at other places, google and yahoo are almost useless. the "bad" places work just fine under ms windows.
so i figure it's a networking/handshaking issue, but that's all i can figure. i need help to troubleshoot it further. if it's happening to me, it has to be happening to other people, and i consider it a major hassle.
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Nov 8, 2010
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Jan 6, 2010
I am running Slackware 13.0 on an computer with low memory (128 MB, i thought). When I type "free -m" in xterm terminal it displays.In the last line it displays only 5 MB used of 687. Is that normal?
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Dec 17, 2010
i booted up this morning and got a surprise. when i plug in a usb drive normally, it pops up in the k message box, and i can choose too mount it. then it mounts no problem.
when i turned on the computer today, however, i plugged in my usb drive, and clicked to mount it, and lo and behold, i got a strange message:
'Could not mount the following device: USB 8GB'
when i choose more information, i get this:
Code:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.12" (uid=8691 pid=2415 comm="kdeinit4: plasma-desktop [kdeinit]) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=1887 comm="/usr/sbin/hald))
im not entirely sure what this means. i can mount the drive manually through the terminal if it's running as root, but thats not a particularly practical way to do things, as i am a student and often have to switch USB drives and ipods many times a day.
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May 31, 2011
I've got xfce up and running with slack now, created a new user 4 my self. And now i'd like to get some updates and stuff, but i need to use my mobile broadband. It's a telsta dongle If that changes the circumstances. How would i go about setting this up?
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Jul 3, 2010
This is a 'clean' upgrade from slack 13.0 to 13.1 (32-bit)To qualify: / , /home , and /usr/local are on separate partitionsand / was reformatted.When I attempt to mount a removable device - USB stick or DVD, I get the following error message:
Code:
Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.134" (uid=1000 pid=6328 comm="exo-mount) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error
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Aug 1, 2010
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Jan 23, 2011
We had this problem a while back but it went away with whatever updates lvm/cryptsetup have been through, but it's back again as of the latest update. Instead of symlinks to the /dev/dm-* devices, lvm and cryptsetup are both creating duplicate device nodes under /dev/mapper for already existing devices.
e.g.
Code:
gazl@slack:~$ ls -l /dev/mapper
total 0
crw------- 1 root root 10, 61 Jan 23 16:48 control
brw-rw-r-- 1 root disk 253, 0 Jan 23 16:48 lukssda5
brw-rw-r-- 1 root disk 253, 9 Jan 23 16:48 rootvg-lvhome
[Code]...
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Jan 20, 2010
I want all USB-Devices (Hard-disks, USB-Sticks) that are plugged into a Slackware 13 be mounted as read-only.How do I achieve this?
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Jan 25, 2010
When I plug in a USB GPS device, using cypress_m8 module, is creates /dev/ttyUSB0 with read/write permissions for owner,root, and group, dialout. My question is really just where are the rules for setting these permissions and how exactly are the owner and group names set when /dev/ttyUSB0 is created, i.e. a serial USB device is plugged in.
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Mar 29, 2010
When I installed slackare 13 it detected usb drives and cameras automaticallyow it doesn't. I am runnning a 13.0 system, not current, so I have only applied the updates in that branch (iirc including a new kernel).nowadays when i plug a device in it does not seem to be detected by HAL (i.e not in KDE).However the device is listed if you use the command "lsusb" and the computer obviously knows it has been plugged in as there is a relevant entry in dmesg.Sorry for the generallised nature of the post, but I don't really know anything about HAL or how it can have stopped working
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