Re: IPX in 2.4.[5-9]

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>]

Em Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 06:37:05PM -0300, Alexandre Hautequest escreveu:

> What's the actual IPX support in linux? Is it broken since 2.4.7? Or i

no, it had bugs before for SMP configs and even for UP in some cases 8)

> just need to recompile my tools against a new kernel version -- the old
> ones was compiled in a 2.4.5 -- with any patch, option, whatever?

nothing as far as IPX is concerned
 
> hquest@condor:~$ dmesg
> (snip)
> IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
> IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Conectiva, Inc.

you forgot the most important line, the version

> hquest@condor:~$ /sbin/ifconfig -v eth0    
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:F8:08:BD:A1  
>           inet addr:172.16.40.2  Bcast:172.16.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
>           IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:AC100000:0000F808BDA1
> (snip)
> hquest@condor:~$ slist
> slist: Server not found (0x8847) in ncp_open
> hquest@condor:~$ _
> 
> Not flaming anyone, just questioning.

I see ;) But Petr, that is the maintainer for ncpfs has already answered,
please do what he asks you to do, as the above message is mostly related
to ncpfs than to IPX.

If the problem persists and you think that is IPX related, please let me
know and I'll take a look, but I haven't received other reports related to
what you describe here.
 
- Arnaldo