[BusyBox] wget problem

[Tom Walker]

I've been trying to get wget to work, but always get an error message as
follows: "wget: not an http or ftp url: 192.168.144.1:default.htm" in
response to entering "wget 192.168.144.1/default.htm". I've tried using
three kernel versions (2.2.14, 2.2.19, 2.4.7) , uClibc-0.9.18,
libc-2.2.4, busybox-unstable, and busybox-0.60.5 with the same result.
Downloaded wget-1.8.2 and wget-1.6 and both work properly under uClibc
and GNU libc using the above syntax. Can someone tell me what I'm
missing here?
			thanx, Tom Walker