Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:46:45 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "Browning, Jeff" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: bash not functional on laptop with wireless In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/