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Re: how does xwin resolve ip addresses
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 08:02:41 -0500
- Subject: Re: how does xwin resolve ip addresses
- References: <F75UdJoWzs3nC7iwXZT00026b81@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Chris,
XWin.exe doesn't directly get the list of available IP interfaces.
Rather, it has cygwin1.dll provide it with that list. There have been
problems before with Token Ring cards not showing up in the list of
adapters, as well as other little sublities that have been worked out
over the past year or so.
That your wireless card is not listed in ``ipconfig /all'' suggests to
me that there is no chance that cygwin1.dll would see that interface.
Alexander Gottwald usually hacks this sort of stuff for us, so hopefully
he will see your message and get an idea. I hope that this gets
addressed (no pun intended :) if it is an issue common to all wireless
cards, because I have really been thinking about setting up some
wireless in my apartment.
Have you tried the latest drivers/extra software from 3COM? I would not
be surprised if a more recent version of the drivers does not have this
problem.
Harold
Chris Twiner wrote:
Hi All,
I have a problem using a wireless card (3com) on my home network. I
have a basic wireless setup and a switched setup (for my servers).
When using the wireless card I can use the internet fully and most
applications are happy with it. Bizarly though ipconfig /all doesn't
list the wireless card as an ip adapter.
When trying to use cygwin/xfree on the address (given by dhcp) the
xserver doesn't work i.e. no clients can bind to it. Is the discovery
mechanism for the ip address using the same as ipconfig does and hence
can't see it?
Does anyone have similar experience?
tia,
Chris
PS (I should get some time today to work on xwinclip, I'll tackle it
on the latest release)
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