[coLinux-devel] Another not-quite-perfect installation

[Evan D. <eda...@tj...>]

First, I'd like to say I love the idea of this project - I've been using
Cygwin for years, and would love to get away from it's "most things just
compile, but a few just don't."  (Not to say I don't like it - it's just
that I don't want to spend the effort to patch code to get it to compile).

However, I'm having a problem with coLinux - today's build runs nicely,
but I can't connect to the Internet.  I installed the TAP-win32 adapter,
however I cannot get it to work.  I'm not sure if this is due to my error,
an error with my computer, or the fact that I have dialup.

I ran colinux-daemon, and a console popped up and booted nicely.  Next I
ran colinux-net-daemon, and it displayed "Enabling TAP-Win32...", followed
by "Connecting to daemon", while colinux-daemon displayed "Module
connected: conet0" followed by "co_message_switch: setting callback rule
for 8".  However, within the console, ping is unsuccessful (I also tried
IP addresses in case only DNS was broken).  Also, I checked "status" on
the TAP-win32 adapter, and it said some (under a hundred) bytes had been
sent, and the number seemed to go up sporadically, independent of when I
tried to ping.

I understand that this is only a very early pre-release, but I thought it
was worth letting you know - either someone will let me know what I'm
doing wrong, or else a bug may be fixed.

Also, this is probably unrelated, but under control panel->network
connections, when I right-click on the TAP-win32 adapter, the "delete"
option is grayed out.  I was hoping to reinstall this to see if that was
the problem, but I can't get rid of it!  Any suggestions?