I am trying to connect to Freenode. This was working fine but now I am receiving this error message:
``` *** Notice -- You need to authenticate via sasl to use this server !!! Closing link: <gateway-information> (SASL access only) !!! freenode: connection broken by remote peer (closed) ``` The IRC client I am using is rcirc an Emacs IRC client. I have not changed my rcirc configuration that was working. I am able to sign into Freenode without any trouble using Freenode's web irc client. I have tried adding the `gnutls`, `gsasl` and `cyrus-sasl` packages to my system configuration and reconfiguring. These packages do not fix this problem. The Emacs version is `27.2`.