Fwd: [Wine] LAN games no longer working in Starcraft

"Alexander N. Sørnes" alex at thehandofagony.com
Mon May 22 11:13:12 CDT 2006


Philippe A. skrev:

> Forgot to CC list. Sorry.
>
>>Unable to initialize network provider
>>
>>I'm on Fedora Core 4.
>>
>>Can anyone confirm this?
>>
>>
> I run Wine 0.9.13, and UPD multiplayer works fine for me, using (what I
> believe) is the latest version of Starcraft.  I have not tested previous
> Starcraft versions.  IPX can only be used if the game is run as root.
> Networking was tested with two existing Wine installs, though I don't
> think that should matter.
>
> I have also updated Starcraft to the latest patch. I don't normally 
> use IPX, but I have noticed selecting IPX and UDP currently produce 
> the same result.
>
> What is your distro and kernel? We are two on FC4 experiencing the 
> same result.
>
> Thanks!

The two computers both run Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.16.
Some possible issues I can think of:
- Are you using a 64bit environment?
- Is 'lo' up? ('ifconfig' to check)
- Are you using ipv6?

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