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Bug 10919

Summary: ipx_configure fails socket() call: "socket: invalid argument"
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Richard Elkins <relkins>
Component: modutilsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version: 6.2CC: rvokal
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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 ***