IRC in Opera 7.54

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Hi,

Some quick stats, i'm running kernel-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 on a Pentium 4 behind a Linksys router.

I just emerged Opera 7.54 final for Linux and everything seems to be fine, except for some reason i'm unable to get any kind of response at all when I attempt to connect to IRC servers via the built-in chat. I've not changed any default values, yet it was working fine on my Fedora build.

I'm pretty new to Linux, so was wondering if this might be permission based or perhaps an issue with iptables or something. If anyone has any suggestions i'd be most appreciative.