21-05-2002 04:39									#1
	linux and freeciv newbie Remove this text

Hello all,

I'm a linux newbie, so please, be patient with my ignorance

I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with KDE 3.0 installed. I recently downloaded and installed the freeciv 1.12.0 game and followed the instructions to the letter. Here's my problem....

When I hit the "connect" button in the client window, I get a "refused connection" message. I'm trying to play solo on my own machine and I've done everything exactly as it says to in the manual. Here are the commands I've used:

civserver --nometa
set aifill 5
civclient

Then, when I hit connect, I get the "refused connection" message. The server is set to "local host" and the port to 5555. In the console, I get the message "unable to locate .../.../.civclientrc."

Any help would be appreciated...and again, please remember that I am clueless on unix! Thanks!

	22-05-2002 02:25									#2
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Tiger,

The error is a bit vague for me to directly point to a solution and I tend to take more care of support for the windows front. You might have faster results if you also mail this message to the mailing list at: freeciv@freeciv.org

Doing a search in the mailing list archives at http://arch.freeciv.org/ may also prove fruitful.


Glad to see you're trying out on the real deal...

	22-05-2002 04:05									#3
	Thanks...found a solution Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

Thanks for the tip, but I *just* found a solution and got the game up and running

	24-05-2002 07:15									#4
	try this to log on Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

Being new to linux you may have accidently misconfigured your ip protocal. localhost may be = 10.??.??.?? or something else. So change "localhost" to 127.0.0.1 in the dialog box. If that works just reconfigure your localhost back under linux config in the configuration/networking/netconfig. I hope that if this is your problem Mandrake 8.1 has not changed the K"start" menu that much. I have 8.0.