[wellylug] Skypeless in Seattle

[thefrasers]

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> On Thu, January 8, 2009 7:30 am, MDM Productions wrote:
> > Can anyone assist with a Skype setup please. The Eee701
> > box with EeePCLinux aboard works seamlessly except for
> > ******! Skype. Choose a user name, it says. Well, nearly
> > half an hour of me making suggestions, some of them
> > risque, and it making alternate sometimes risque offers
> that it then won't accept when I do, I remain Skypeless.
> > There is an advanced configuration screen which I have
> > left alone out of ignorance that has a port setting
> > already, and automatic proxy detection set too. Is this
> all just Skype, or is my box missing something vital. >
> 
> Hi John,
> It almost sounds like your problem is with the Skype
> registration process and not with your Linux client.
> 
> I use Skype on my Ubuntu-Eee build without a problem - but
> my user account was registered some time before, via a
> Windows box, so I didn't have that set of hassles... Have
> you successfully registered a Skype username yet?
> 
> 
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Negative. Currently at work and Eee-less too.