Trying to Connect to IRC for the First Time

[AxelMan0]

I'm trying to use Pidgin to connect to the IRC channel #ubuntu-beginners. I registered with nickserv and it tells me that I am already logged in. I do not see any activity in the channel, however, and when I try to say anything it says 'Unable to send message: Not logged in".

Edit: Okay now it's not giving me that not logged in message so I'm assuming the rooms are just empty?

[pedro3005]

The program XChat comes with ubuntu, and is better for IRC. Go to Applications, Internet, XChat IRC.
Select Freenode or type /server irc.freenode.org , then /nick to your registered nick. Then type '/msg NickServ identify password' , changing password to the password you chose. Now, /j #ubuntu-beginners . If that doesn't work, come back and post error message

[credobyte]

Rooms are not empty - there should be at least a few people Regarding IRC clients - XChat, Konversation ( my fav ), etc.

[nhasian]

xchat does come in the ubuntu repositories but i dont think its installed by default. you can easily install it from add/remove programs or simply typing in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install xchat

I should point out that you shouldnt install the program xchat-gnome, you want the plain xchat one.

[meindian523]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=679874