Re: [newbie] Trying to use xchat

[YankDownUnder]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:03, Cameron MacDonald tapped out:
> I've botched something but I don't know what. I'm trying to use
> xchat to check out irc.freenode.net. When I open xchat and connect I
> get this:
>   Looking up irc.freenode.net
> * Connecting to irc.freenode.net (216.165.191.52) port 6667...
> * Connected. Now logging in...
> * *** Looking up your hostname...
> * *** Found your hostname, welcome back
> * *** Checking ident
> * *** No identd (auth) response
> * USER :Not enough parameters
> * Closing Link: 127.0.0.1 (Connection Timed Out)
> * Disconnected (Remote host closed socket).
>   Cycling to next server in FreeNode...
> * Disconnected ()
>
> I can't seem to find anythaing that tells me what I've done wrong.
> I'm not even really sure how to use xchat or irc's. (Chat rookie!)
> Anybody able to point me to the elusive answer-place?
> TIA
> Cameron

Here's something you can try - since you apparently mucked up some preferences 
somewhere...

* Renamem the ~/.xchat2 directory to .xchat2.bak
* Fire up XChat again and go through all the bits about connecting to 
irc.freenode.net
* Go through (carefully) all of your Preferences and make sure they're happy.

That should fix ya up bud!

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