Subject: Re: running DEC binaries
From: Greg Lindahl (lindahl@cs.virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 12:41:23 PDT
> I am trying to run a Dec native binary on alphalinux. i get the error
> message
>
> getadr: ioctl SIOCGIFCONF: Invalid argument
> Couldn't locate your Ethernet device
> ERROR: could not connect to NameServer.
If you really want to debug this, use strace on the binary.
> I think what is happening is that the application is
> looking to one of the dec libraries for information on the ethernet card
> and the library can't find that information.
No, that's not what the error message says. It says that it did a
SIOCGIFCONF ioctl, and got EINVAL back. The source code for that in
the kernel is net/core/dev.c. However, there's no sign of EINVAL
there...
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