Unable to connect to freenode

[D. R. Evans]

Terence Simpson said the following at 12/12/2007 06:57 PM :

>>
>> It's been at least 10 years since I last used IRC (actually, now I think
>> about it, probably more like 15), but I quickly created an IRC account in
>> Kopete and tried to connect. And received:
>>
>> ----
>>
>> (16:17:36)  #  Connecting to irc.kde.org...
>> (16:17:37)  #  NOTICE from irc.kde.org: *** Looking up your hostname...
>> (16:17:37)  #  NOTICE from irc.kde.org: *** Found your hostname, welcome back
>> (16:17:37)  #  NOTICE from irc.kde.org: *** Checking ident
>> (16:17:45)  #  NOTICE from irc.kde.org: *** No identd (auth) response
>>
>> ----
>>
>> I tried several times to connect, and it said the same thing each time.
>>

...text elided...

>>
>>   
> Those are all normal messages, try opening Konversation and connecting
> (it has freenode already setup).

It seems to work with other IRC clients. Can anyone here connect to
freenode using Kopete? (Because if no one can, I'll file a bug report.)

  Doc