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

[Bernhard Mogens Ege]

>>>>> "David" == David Bronaugh <dbronaugh at linuxboxen.org> writes:

> 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.

You will have to setup som registry entries to make wine believe that
IPX is available. I did it once and it worked (as root), but I cannot
remember the changes.

Bernhard