<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>You're right... server ports.<br>
Foggy brain from repeatedly trying various combos<br>
of empathy setup, where I setup "connection to server"<br>
and typed in port 6667.... hence I went to another universe<br>
to open the ports. me bad.<br>
<br>
also, F12 has a /usr/lib/pidgin but neither of the F12 distro <br>
list of packages I have on my HD has a rpm package<br>
nor does <br>
$>locate pidgin # find a execute file.<br>
<br>
And why wouldn't empathy work ??? However, I'm not<br>
adamant about using it. Perhaps a bit wondering how to fix it.<br><br>
thanks guys.<br>
<br>
Walt.........<br><br><br>Celebrating over 13,000 emails in my Yahoo Inbox !<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 7/20/11, Matt Rechkemmer <i><calug-list@aesir-corporation.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Matt Rechkemmer <calug-list@aesir-corporation.com><br>Subject: Re: [CALUG] irc client in Fedora 12<br>To: "Walt Smith" <waltechmail@yahoo.com><br>Cc: "calug@unknownlamer.org" <calug@unknownlamer.org><br>Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 9:19 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 04:40:23PM -0700, Walt Smith wrote:<br>> <br>> I can't get empathy to connect to a irc server. The server is<br>> irc.efnet.net/UnallocatedSpace<br>> <br>> I have turned firewall off using the gui firewall and se should be in<br>> permissive. (how can I check se for permissive for ports ?) (Before I<br>> turned firewall off (
disabled), I set trusted ports 6667 for both<br>> tcp/udp.)<br><br>Unless your firewall is filtering outbound connections, too, you shouldn't<br>need to "allow" 6667. Only IRC servers will listen and accept connections<br>on 6667.<br><br>> I have looked thru the F12 basic and DVD full directories for the string<br>> "irc" looking for another irc rpm package in the distro but dont see one.<br>> So, is there another irc client in the F12 distro ? If not, where is one<br>> that WILL work !<br><br>Try Irssi (<a href="http://irssi.org/" target="_blank">http://irssi.org/</a>).<br>It's a CLI client, but it's really powerful and great to pair with 'screen'.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>--<br>Matt Rechkemmer<br><a ymailto="mailto:calug-list@aesir-corporation.com" href="/mc/compose?to=calug-list@aesir-corporation.com">calug-list@aesir-corporation.com</a><br><br>"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."<br>-
Edmund Burke<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>