Maybe this information could be added to http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ instead?
Janne
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Davis
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: iphlpapi: Hint what to do when icmp does not work
On 2/11/11 11:12 AM, André Hentschel wrote:
Otherwise the user might try running wine as root or doesn't know that
this error can be easily fixed when needed.
---
dlls/iphlpapi/icmp.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dlls/iphlpapi/icmp.c b/dlls/iphlpapi/icmp.c
index d8ee101..41d1940 100644
--- a/dlls/iphlpapi/icmp.c
+++ b/dlls/iphlpapi/icmp.c
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ HANDLE WINAPI IcmpCreateFile(VOID)
int sid=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_RAW,IPPROTO_ICMP);
if (sid < 0) {
ERR_(winediag)("Failed to use ICMP (network ping), this requires
special permissions.\n");
+ ERR_(winediag)("Try running \"sudo setcap cap_net_raw+epi
/usr/bin/wine-preloader\".\n");
That only works on systems that support POSIX capabilities (Linux, and
maybe OpenBSD).
Chip
