Re: how does xwin resolve ip addresses

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Chris,

XWin.exe doesn't directly get the list of available IP interfaces. 
Rather, it has cygwin1.dll provide it with that list.  There have been 
problems before with Token Ring cards not showing up in the list of 
adapters, as well as other little sublities that have been worked out 
over the past year or so.

That your wireless card is not listed in ``ipconfig /all'' suggests to 
me that there is no chance that cygwin1.dll would see that interface.

Alexander Gottwald usually hacks this sort of stuff for us, so hopefully 
he will see your message and get an idea.  I hope that this gets 
addressed (no pun intended :) if it is an issue common to all wireless 
cards, because I have really been thinking about setting up some 
wireless in my apartment.

Have you tried the latest drivers/extra software from 3COM?  I would not 
be surprised if a more recent version of the drivers does not have this 
problem.

Harold

Chris Twiner wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem using a wireless card (3com) on my home network.  I 
> have a basic wireless setup and a switched setup (for my servers).  
> When using the wireless card I can use the internet fully and most 
> applications are happy with it.  Bizarly though ipconfig /all doesn't 
> list the wireless card as an ip adapter.
>
> When trying to use cygwin/xfree on the address (given by dhcp) the 
> xserver doesn't work i.e. no clients can bind to it.  Is the discovery 
> mechanism for the ip address using the same as ipconfig does and hence 
> can't see it?
>
> Does anyone have similar experience?
>
> tia,
>
> Chris
>
> PS (I should get some time today to work on xwinclip, I'll tackle it 
> on the latest release)
>
>
>
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