Is this even possible? I have SIMH 3.9 on Linux Mint 12, running the VAX with OpenVMS 7.3. It works great, except for networking. The hardware is ASUS EeePC with Atheros AR5001 wireless network adapter and Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet adapter.
I have libpcap version 1.1.1 (which is also callable as version 0.8) installed on Linux. The VAX module was compiled with networking enabled. The configuration file has an "attach xq0 wlan0" or "attach xq0 eth0" depending on which interface I'm trying to use. With the wired ethernet (eth0) I am able to use both TCP/IP and DECNET Plus. With the wireless (wlan0) neither one works. I've tried disabling the DECNET IV compatibility mode, which was recommended in one source for wireless compatibility, and also tried adding "set xq xx-yy-zz-aa-bb-cc" (with the actual MAC address of the wireless adapter) to the configuration. The first did nothing I could discern, and the second generated an error message during startup of the SIMH module, saying that the MAC address was already in use and could not be assigned. Obviously the workaround is to use a cabled connection when the VAX emulator is needed, but this isn't very practical in most cases. Is there any other possibility I've overlooked? I notice that this is a frequently found question when using Google to look for answers, but I found no responses other than the two solutions mentioned above. I suppose a different network card emulation for VAX could make the wi-fi adapter look like a normal ethernet interface, but apparently that hasn't been done yet and it's probably beyond my very rudimentary C coding abilities. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
