Communicate/IRCforNewbies

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General help on IRC

General help on irc can be found here http://irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html There are many IRC client programs. For this tutorial we use XChat. Launch XChat. Enter a nickname for yourself. Then, under Networks, scroll down to FreeNode and click connect. Wait a bit and when the connection is complete, enter SUSE in the "Join this channel" box, and click OK.

Watch and learn a bit, then just blurt out your question. Not all questions get answered. Don't take it personal. It depends a bit on the time of the day, who is around, and what mood they're in. Smart questions are more likely to be answered. See http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You can also type '/msg SUSEhelp !help'. This will move you to a second window where you are having a private chat with the server software help bot. In this window you can just type !wireless to get the distilled knowledge of the help chat folks on wireless. Following are the other keywords. This list is sort of a FAQ of the questions that are being asked over and over. You will see these being invoked from time to time in the live chat window for people's questions.