Re: bash not functional on laptop with wireless

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

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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