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RE: bash not functional on laptop with wireless (VPN) Connection


All:

Per the instructions on the web page referred to by Igor, below, my
cygcheck.out file is attached.

Regards,
Jeff 

-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:47 AM
To: Browning, Jeff
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: bash not functional on laptop with wireless

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Browning, Jeff wrote:
>
> > All:
> >
> > I have installed Cygwin Xfree on my T40 laptop and yesterday when in

> > the office over a normal wired ethernet connection, it was working
fine.
> >
> > Today, I am working from home over a wireless connection, and Cygwin

> > has become completely non-functional. The bash shell shows nothing, 
> > basically it's just dead. Running the startxwin.bat file from a 
> > normal DOS window shows the usual start message. The X icon appears,

> > but will display nothing. Eventually, the X icon vanishes, 
> > apparently a silent crash.
> >
> > Any clue what is going on here?
>
> The bash thing sounds like a general Cygwin problem, so you should 
> take it to the main Cygwin list (redirecting and setting Reply-To:).  
> Do you happen to run a VPN in addition to your wireless connection?
> Also, please review <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> to see how you 
> can provide the relevant information about your system.

...and it bounced due to a keyword in the subject (presumably "XFree").
So I changed the subject.
	Igor
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