On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:50:21AM -0500, Roger J. Mialkowski wrote: > Has anyone ever had any luck running ipx_configure to set up the network > interface for netware connectivity? > > Here's the message I get when I do: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# insmod ipx > Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-2.3sparc/kernel/net/ipx/ipx.o > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# insmod ncpfs > Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-2.3sparc/kernel/fs/ncpfs/ncpfs.o > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on > ipx_configure: ioctl: Invalid argument > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# > > And then, when I do a dmesg, the last line is: > > sys32_ioctl(ipx_configure:1099): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(000089e0) > arg(effff9df) > > This works without any problems on sparc32 machines (SS5). > > Are there any workarounds or patches I need to apply to make this work?
The workaround would be if you could get ipx_configure compiled as a 64bit binary. The problem is that 32bit programs running under a 64bit kernel have to have the ioctl's translated, or atleast flagged compatible, so that they get sent to the correct place in the kernel (just think about where a 32bit pointer is passed and the kernel driver expects a 64bit pointer...nasty problems would occur without translation). TO really fix it, the ioctl should be checked and added to arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c, either as a compat ioctl (same size 32bit or 64bit) or have a translation handler created. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
