[coLinux-devel] Re: coLinux 0.5.4: clarification and bug warning

[Christophe T. <ch...@ae...>]

Still the same, as I'm on w2k, I did a "ipconfig /all" and the description
line:

 Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller

So, I tried "NVIDIA", "MCP", and even "" for the name in the XML, still
crashes.

-Christophe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alejandro R. Sedeno" <as...@MI...>
To: "Christophe Thibault" <ch...@ae...>
Cc: "Cooperative Linux Development" <col...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:09 PM
Subject: coLinux 0.5.4: clarification and bug warning


> Assumption: You're trying to make it work with a connection called
> "Local Area Network"
>
> Perhaps the documentation needs to be a little clearer on what name
> means. It's refering to the description windows has for your NIC. Two
> ways to obtain that:
>
> 1) (GUI, XP) Highlight 'Local Area Network' in 'Network Connections',
> it's the last line in the Detail's box on the side.
>
> 2) (CLI) 'ipconfig /all'. It's the 'Description' line.
>
> Also, I'm noticing a sign extension bug has worked its way into the
> code. I'm going to try and patch it, sometime tonight. In the mean time,
> try to use MAC octets between 00 and 79. You'll know you're running into
> this bug if you see a line like:
>
> executing: colinux-bridged-net-daemon -i 0 -n foo -mac xx:xx:ffffff87...
>
> -Alejandro
>
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 00:44, Christophe Thibault wrote:
> > I can't get the bridged (winpcap) networking to work, the
> > colinux-bridged-net-daemon.exe crashes everytime I run colinux-daemon.
> >
> > I have the following line in my default.colinux.xml:
> >
> >  <network index="0" type="bridged" name="Area"></network>
> >
> > 'name' is supposed to be a substring of one of the names of the adapters
in
> > Windows's configuration, right? I even tried with:
> >
> >  <network index="0" type="bridged" name="Area"
> > mac="44:55:12:18:0A:12"></network>
> >
> > And same thing happens. From the log:
> >
> > colinux: launching net daemons
> > daemon: launching daemon for conet0
> > executing: colinux-bridged-net-daemon -i 0 -n Area -mac
44:55:12:18:0a:12
> > conet0: initialized
> >      49 [main] colinux-bridged-net-daemon 1756 handle_exceptions:
Exception:
> > STA
> > TUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> >     649 [main] colinux-bridged-net-daemon 1756 open_stackdumpfile:
Dumping
> > stack
> >  trace to colinux-bridged-net-daemon.exe.stackdump
> > co_message_switch: freeing rule for 8
> > daemon: module disconnected: conet0
> >
> > -Christophe
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Alejandro R. Sedeno" <as...@MI...>
> > To: "Christophe Thibault" <ch...@ae...>
> > Cc: "Cooperative Linux Development"
<col...@li...>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: [coLinux-devel] coLinux 0.5.4
> >
> >
> > > Nope, it's because I'm using winPCap to write out raw network frames,
> > > and passing incoming frames back to coLinux. coLinux's ethenet device
> > > believes it's on a wired network. As such it reads and writes 802.3
> > > frames, which differ in form from 802.11 frames.
> > >
> > > -Alejandro
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:50, Christophe Thibault wrote:
> > > > Hey Alejandro,
> > > >
> > > > Is it because of the fact that you need to put the card in
promiscuous
> > mode
> > > > (or whatever that name is)? Because some 802.11 wireless PCMCIA
cards
> > > > support that mode fine.
> > > >
> > > > -Christophe
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > > From: "Alejandro R. Sedeno" <as...@MI...>
> > > > To: "Cooperative Linux Development"
<col...@li...
> > >
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:28 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [coLinux-devel] coLinux 0.5.4
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > >   * conet-pcap: pcap-based daemon (contributed by Alejandro R.
> > Sedeno).
> > > > >
> > > > > This option only works with 802.3 (wired) networks, not 802.11
> > networks
> > > > > (or others for that matter).
> > > > >
> > > > > -Alejandro
> > > > >
> > > > >
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