suzumebachi Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I just got a new laptop. It's got wifi of course. I want to be able to connect to the internets via wifi through a shared connection on my desktop. Since I don't have broadband, I naturally don't have a wireless router either, so I made an adhoc wireless network. Setting this up on both computers was quick and relatively painless, and ICS seems to work in general except for one thing... IRC will not connect. At all. No matter what server I try to connect to, mIRC gives me the error "permission denied." But, the internet itself works fine (I'm writing this post from my laptop in fact). It's only IRC that seems to have the problem. So far I've tried disabling Windows Firewall on both systems and setting the adhoc network to "private" but nothing seems to have any effect. Does Vista have some kind of port blocking crap preventing me from using IRC over a shared connection? If so, how do I disable it? And if not, what else could be causing this problem? And before you say "lolool get broadband k," that is simply not an option. k Thanks in advance, afk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 maybe it's blocking the specific ports that IRC uses? i'd suggest checking into it through IRC's bug reporting system. i'm sure others have had the same problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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