slack12 xchat port ?

[blackbeard99]

i am trying to get xchat irc client to do sends it will recieve files but it wont do a dcc send i have setup the ports in my netgear router and in xchat do i need to change somthing in linux
i basically need to know how to open a port range i guess i tried iptables but says invalid command.not sure if i am leaving out some important info its slackware 12 kernel 2.6.21.5-smp hope its ok to ask this here thanks for any help

[imported_spankdidly]

Does it give some sort of errors or anything?

[blackbeard99]

on the xchat end it just say's waiting on the recive end it is auto accept and it almost imeddiatly says get of file incomplete (unable to connect) the reciveing computer recieves fine from other computer it is running mirc instead of xchat.even after send fails xchat continues to say waiting

[purehate]

you could try to reinstall it with slapt-get

bt~#slapt-get --install --reinstall xchat (or whatever its called)

[blackbeard99]

i tried reinstalling the new version and i installed a older version same problem

[imported_spankdidly]

I guess no DCC send pr0n for you.

[blackbeard99]

i am realllly sttarting to gett thhee shacksss frromm pr000n withdrawl thanks for the feed back i'll just keep messing with it