IRC Connection Help
Posted by slobbergoat on Friday 6 November, 2009
General connection information
Information on the Java client
Information on X-Chat.
Information on Chatzilla
Information on Opera.
Information on jIRCii
Information on Bitch-X.
Information on Pidgin
Information on Irssi.
Information on Trillian.
Information on mIRC.
Information on Kopete.
Information on other clients.
Submitting client setup instructions
Troubleshooting
The three basic ingredients of connecting to IRC are:
- Server name: this specifies the server and network you wish to connect to. In general, you should pick the server geographically closest to you. Sorcery.net has as of this writing eight servers available:
Name Address Location North America Aurora aurora.sorcery.net Phoenix, Arizona, USA Disorganized disorganized.sorcery.net Seattle, Washington, USA Nomad nomad.sorcery.net Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Terra terra.sorcery.net Houston, Texas, USA Wraith wraith.sorcery.net Houston, Texas, USA Europe Ironforge ironforge.sorcery.net London, United Kingdom Iuturna iuturna.sorcery.net Groningen, The Netherlands Shire shire.sorcery.net Amersfoort, The Netherlands - The channel name: this decides which chat(s) you are connected to. In our case, the name is #daria
- A nickname; this cannot exceed 17 characters nor be one already in use by anyone else on the network. In general, it's a good idea to use your message board nickname, if you have one.
The Java client is the simplest of all. Go to this page on sorcery.net, fill in your nickname, server, and channel and click [Login].
- Start X-Chat
- When the server list window appears, close it.
- Type the following three commands, hitting enter after each:
- /nick (your chosen nickname)
- /server (the server you chose)
- /j #daria
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After installing and starting the client, go to the 'jIRCii Setup' preference pane. Click the 'Edit' button, and then the 'Add' button in the Server Editor window that pops up. 'Description' can be whatever you want. For 'Hostname', enter "irc.sorcery.net". 'Ports' should be "6667,7000,9000", and 'Network' is "SorceryNet". Leave the 'Server requires SSL' box unchecked. There is no password. The 'Connect to server on client startup' box can be checked or not, as you prefer. Click 'OK', close the Server Editor window. In the preference pane, enter your preferred nickname in the appropriate field. The other fields may be left blank (note that if you fill them in, your real name and email address will be visible if someone does a /whois on you). Click 'OK'. In the menu bar, go to Connection->Connect and select irc.sorcery.net. It may take several seconds to establish a connection. In the text entry bar at the bottom of the window, type in "/join #Daria" and hit return.
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- Right-click on the Pidgin icon in the system tray, and select Accounts. The Accounts dialogue box (DB) will open.
- Click the Add button at the bottom left of the Accounts DB. The Add Accounts DB will open.
- In the Protocol drop-down, select IRC. Fill in your nick under "Screen Name" and your chosen server under "Server".
- Click the Save button.
- The IRC account will now show up in the Accounts DB. To connect, click the "Enabled" check box. You will be connected to the Sorcery.net server.
- From the Buddy List window, Buddies menu, select Join a Chat.
- Select the IRC account you just configured in the top dropdown, type #daria for channel, and leave password blank.
- Click [Join].
Irssi is a command line client, so everything is done from a prompt.
1. Download and install irssi, either from the website or by typing yum or apt-get at the prompt.
2. Start irssi (irssi) and then quit it (/quit) after it starts to create the initial configuration file.
3. Edit the configuration file (~/.irssi/config) in the editor of your choice (vi, emacs) to add the Sorcery network. Add the following after the servers = ( line:
{
address = "irc.sorcery.net";
chatnet = "Sorcery";
port = "9000";
use_ssl = "no";
ssl_verify = "no";
family = "inet";
}
4. Start irssi again (irssi or screen irssi (to run irssi inside a screen)).
5. Connect to the network: /connect sorcery.
6. Choose a nickname: /nick your_nick.
7. Join #Daria: /j #daria
8. Useful commands: /part [reason] (leave the channel); /quit [reason] (quit irssi).
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Submitting client setup instructions
Instructions for setting up various IRC clients to connect to #Daria can be submitted here. Please make them as clear and detailed as possible (the instructions already posted are a good template to follow; screenshots help too), and don't forget to include what platforms the client runs on (Mac, Linux, Windows, etc.). We are unable to verify instructions for every IRC client, so anything submitted may be copied onto this page wholesale. If there is an error in any instructions posted here, please tell us so we can fix it. Thanks.
Troubleshooting
A recently discovered problem is that at least some Netgear routers will occasionally stop allocating memory to IRC, disconnecting users from IRC networks and preventing them from reconnecting. Nothing is known about why or how often this occurs, or what router models are affected besides the FWAG114 that the problem was first noticed on. If you are unable to connect to IRC and suspect this may be the problem, log into the router (see the directions that came with it for details on how to do that) and check the logs. There will be an entry along the lines of "IRC: failed to allocate memory" if hat is in fact the problem. Unplugging the router for a few moments should fix the problem.
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