Follow-up Comment #4, bug #22792 (project freeciv): I remember Ubuntu LAN working once upon a time. LAN scan stopped working for me on Ubuntu circa freeciv 2.3.1, about the same time ipv6 scanning was introduced. I have the feeling from tinkering that there is more than one issue.
I remember this discussion: https://gna.org/bugs/?18922 about difficulty with net lookup having unexpected failure. Also, about that time Ubuntu started using usb_modeswitch function to lookup wifi drivers on login and hotplug the wifi/gsm driver, otherwise Ubuntu would continue reading usb multi-device on dev/bus/usb ${root}:000 (as a flash drive) and fail device mapping to interface. usb_modeswitch is now installed by default. If your device is not in the official list you have to edit the tabulated file in /etc with a device-id, mode number and wifi kernel driver, sometimes even blacklisting is needed. wpa2 security functionality became standardized around that time and the wpa_supplicant package went a major revision. Another idea for test. Test ideas: 1) alias or link ppp0 to eth0. 2) NAT bridge ppp0 to eth0. I'm sure it would take me hours to figure how to do that. (Also my PPP are in the landfill.) Anycase, I had tons of issues on Ubuntu with multimode usb iface handling and suspect that is a contributing factor in protocol issues since then. I haven't tried playing LAN in many other games on Ubuntu for comparison. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://gna.org/bugs/?22792> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Gna! http://gna.org/ _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
