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

David Bronaugh dbronaugh at linuxboxen.org
Mon Dec 3 13:30:13 CST 2001


On Mon, 03 Dec 2001 04:04:20 Bernhard Mogens Ege wrote:
> >>>>> "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

Thank you. Now, what registry entries would those be? Once I have 'em, 
I'll be on the road here...

(by the way, the winesetuptk people should probably hear about this... 
it'd make things a lot easier if the registry were primed with such 
entries).

David Bronaugh




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