IPX support in Starcraft - Why can't I get it working?

[John Johnson]

On Mon, 03 Dec 2001 01:19:34 -0500, David Bronaugh wrote:

> I can't seem to get IPX going in Starcraft. It gives me "Unable to
> initialize network provider" in a pretty dialog box (as per usual). I
> have IPX in kernel, the interface configured for 802.2 frame type, and
> some IPX RIP/SAP daemon going. The kernel's IPX is configured without
> the "Full internal IPX network" thing. Apparently (from my reading) this
> would be a bad thing. I compiled wine, and it says it finds "GNU style
> IPX support". I'm gathering that's a good thing.
> 
> Any ideas? I haven't seen many people commenting on this... I've been
> using WINE 20011108.
> 
> David Bronaugh
> 
> ps: If you have any suggestions to help debug this, please throw em this
> way.. I'm looking for some insight into this if possible, not
> necessarily just a fix.
> 
The way I got Starcraft to work with IPX was by running Starcraft as root.
Also, make sure all workstations are configured with the same IPX network
address (i.e. 0x12345678).

HTH

John