Bug 10919 - ipx_configure fails socket() call: "socket: invalid argument"
Summary: ipx_configure fails socket() call: "socket: invalid argument"
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 10375
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: modutils
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-04-19 15:16 UTC by Richard Elkins
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-04-19 15:19:20 UTC
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Description Richard Elkins 2000-04-19 15:16:53 UTC 
We never tried Netware under 6.1.
and recently upgraded to 6.2.

Our goal:  Connect to an existing Netware printer as a client.

We manually loaded ncpfs.o with `insmod`
and tried to run ipx_configure.  The following message appeared:

   /sbin/ipx_configure: socket: Invalid argument

I created a small program with the same socket() call:

   s = socket(AF_IPX, SOCK_DGRAM, AF_IPX);

and got the same result from socket().

I upgraded the ncpfs RPM package but it was no help.

It seems like the AF_IPX family is missing from the Redhat 6.2 distribution
or the HOW-TOs are missing a step.

Please asist ASAP.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-04-19 15:19:59 UTC 
Grab the latest modutils from rawhide; it has the proper
alias for the ipx module.

Alternatively, run 'modprobe ipx' before trying to use
IPX software.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10375 ***
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