Re: [Vtun-devel] Can't allocate tun device. Invalid argument(22)

[SLOGEN <je...@sl...>]

Tom Murphy wrote:

> Hi all,
 
>   I'm having the same problem Helge Jensen is having.
> I even symlinked /usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux
> and /usr/include/asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm.
> 
>   I'm running 2.4.12-ac5, and I get:
> 
> vtund[10010]: Can't allocate tun device. Invalid argument(22)
> 
>   The compilation of 2.5b1 went fine without any errors.
> 
>   Is there a fix or a patch for this?


That was posted earlier on the list, by Guus Sliepen, it worked just 
fine for me.

I have attached the patch to this mail as well. The patch should be 
applied to linux/net/core/dev.c (Dont ask me why dev_alloc_name is 
defined in there, it has nothing with networking to do!)

-- 
Helge Jensen