Re: Cygwin Xfree not functional on laptop with wireless

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Browning, Jeff wrote:

> All:
>
> I have installed Cygwin Xfree on my T40 laptop and yesterday when in the
> office over a normal wired ethernet connection, it was working fine.
>
> Today, I am working from home over a wireless connection, and Cygwin has
> become completely non-functional. The bash shell shows nothing,
> basically it's just dead. Running the startxwin.bat file from a normal
> DOS window shows the usual start message. The X icon appears, but will
> display nothing. Eventually, the X icon vanishes, apparently a silent
> crash.
>
> Any clue what is going on here?

The bash thing sounds like a general Cygwin problem, so you should take it
to the main Cygwin list (redirecting and setting Reply-To:).  Do you
happen to run a VPN in addition to your wireless connection?
Also, please review <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> to see how you can
provide the relevant information about your system.
HTH,
	Igor
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