[Simh] trouble selecting VAX ethernet on CentOS

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

Hmmmm....

Well, all I can say is 'duhh!!!'.

The right unpacking command is merely: 'unzip zipfilename.zip'  the -aa is mangling things.

Sorry for this wrong instructions.

- Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm [mailto:Mark at infocomm.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 1:17 PM
> To: Michael L. Umbricht; simh at trailing-edge.com
> Cc: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
> Subject: RE: [Simh] trouble selecting VAX ethernet on CentOS
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> I just fixed something in the BuildROMs code.  I've added checks to
> verify that the files have been unpacked correctly.  Can you try again.
> 
> If the make fails again it should issue an error message explaining why
> instead of the segfault.  This error message will indicate that the ROM
> image files have been mangled.  This is likely due to something trying
> to do line ending conversions which isn't appropriate for the binary
> ROM files.
> 
> My explicit instructions to download the zip file and then to unpack it
> with 'unzip -aa zipfilename.zip' have worked correctly for me on many
> platforms.
> 
> Please let me know if you get any further.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael L. Umbricht [mailto:mike at umbricht.org]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 12:45 PM
> > To: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm; simh at trailing-edge.com
> > Subject: RE: [Simh] trouble selecting VAX ethernet on CentOS
> >
> > Ok. I gave it a try, but it segfaults during make.
> >
> > -mikeu
> >
> >
> > $ make vax
> > lib paths are: /lib64/ /usr/lib64/ /usr/lib64/atlas/
> /usr/lib64/mysql/
> > /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib/ /usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/
> > using libm: /usr/lib64//libm.so
> > using librt: /usr/lib64//librt.so
> > using libpthread: /usr/lib64//libpthread.so /usr/include/pthread.h
> > using libdl: /usr/lib64//libdl.so /usr/include/dlfcn.h
> > using libpcap: /usr/include/pcap.h
> > *** Simulator(s) being built with networking support using
> > *** Linux provided libpcap components
> > gcc -std=c99 -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -g -I . -D_GNU_SOURCE -DSIM_ASYNCH_IO
> > -DUSE_READER_THREAD  -DHAVE_DLOPEN=so  sim_BuildROMs.c -o
> BIN/BuildROMs
> > BIN/BuildROMs
> > make: *** [BIN/BuildROMs] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > make: *** Deleting file `BIN/BuildROMs'
> >
> >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject: RE: [Simh] trouble selecting VAX ethernet on CentOS
> > > From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <Mark at infocomm.com>
> > > Date: Sun, February 26, 2012 1:22 pm
> > > To: "Michael L. Umbricht" <mike at umbricht.org>, "simh at trailing-
> > edge.com"
> > > <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Michael L. Umbricht
> wrote:
> > > > I'm having a little trouble choosing the ethernet interface for a
> > VAX
> > > > in SimH. My Dell Precision M6400 laptop has the following
> > interfaces:
> > > >
> > > >   0  eth0   ; on-board gig ethernet
> > > >   1  wlan0  ; on-board wireless
> > > >   2  virbr0 ; used by Virtual Box
> > > >   3  eth1   ; PCMCIA card w/ 10b2 or 10bT connectors
> > > >
> > > > I'd really like to use the eth1 ThinWire interface to connect
> SimH
> > with
> > > > a hardware VAX, while using eth0 for my internet connection. When
> I
> > try
> > > > to connect to eth0 or eth1 I get a segmentation fault. If I try
> > just
> > > > "eth" it works fine and connects to eth0. I can't get it to
> attach
> > to
> > > > eth1, though. Choosing from the "at xq ?" menu also leads to a
> core
> > > > dump. Is there anything that I am missing here?
> > >
> > > Hi Mike,
> > >
> > > There have been significant changes to the networking layer in the
> > upcoming release.
> > > Solving your issue makes the most sense using the latest code base.
> > > Please download the latest sources to work out this issue:
> > >
> > >     1 - Download https://github.com/markpizz/simh/zipball/master
> > Saving what that URL returns as a .zip file
> > >     2 - Unpack that zip file with the command: 'unzip -aa
> > zipfilename.zip'
> > >     3 - Build the vax simulator with: 'make vax'
> > >
> > > This will build a simulator with networking support and we can work
> > from there to troubleshoot your issue.
> > >
> > > Let me know if you still have issues.
> > >
> > > Good Luck.
> > >
> > > - Mark Pizzolato
> >
> >