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.

Set up of an openSUSE member cloak

To use your openSUSE member cloak you need to configure your IRC client a bit. This might be different from client to client. The general description how to register your nick is here

Konversation

• Register your IRC nick

 /msg nickserv register <your-password> <your-email>
 Select a password and fill in your email address (withouth the <>)

• To keep your email address private, rather than displaying it publicly, mark it as hidden

 /msg nickserv set hidemail on

• You'll receive a confirmation mail by freenode. Just follow the instruction in there.
• Configure Konversation

 Select File, go to Server list and edit Freenode
 Go to edit "default identity" and under Auto Identify fill in
 "Service" = nickserv, Password "the one you set above", then OK and close

• After membership approval the cloak works automatically in theory, in reality it may take a few weeks