Re: running DEC binaries

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl cs virginia edu>]

> 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...

-- g