xchat login problem

emailssent · 09-24-2004, 01:54 AM

when i tried to connect to xchat on mandrake 9.2,

it says,

Unkown host. May be misspelled it ?
Cycling to next server in AmigaNet .....
Disconnected().

any idea ??

darthtux · 09-24-2004, 02:02 AM

Are you connecting to the right server? Try connecting to
irc.freenode.net
If you can, then you have either the wrong server name or have misspelled it.

emailssent · 09-24-2004, 02:07 AM

i tried to connect with irc.freenode.net also but same problem,

i just opened xchat through command prompt , it asked me to select the sever and i selet that pressed connect.

mindspin · 09-24-2004, 02:23 AM

Cant you just skip the connect prompt?
And then type in the chat screen: "/server irc.quakenet.org"
You should be connecting to a server then.

Another thing, have you set a username at the options?

darthtux · 09-24-2004, 02:40 AM

Are you able to display web pages on this machine?

Can you post the entire error message?

emailssent · 09-24-2004, 05:34 AM

@mindspin

how can skip connect prompt, when i press xchat at command prompt it gave me a screen to choose the server and press connect.

@darthtux

yes i can view the webpages on this m/c and only that much error is there that i have already posted , all that keep repeating again and again.

??

darthtux · 09-24-2004, 05:44 AM

What mindspin is talking about is when you press connect it brings up the main xchat window. In the bar where you enter text type in

/SERVER irc.freenode.net

emailssent · 09-24-2004, 05:54 AM

yes itried that but same thing,

should down a new package or any other idea ??

darthtux · 09-24-2004, 06:50 PM

I am out of answers on xchat. You might try installing irssi and see if it works.
http://www.irssi.org/

emailssent · 09-27-2004, 02:47 AM

thanks, i will try that