Starcraft in Suse 9.1 and Networking

Phyrexicaid · 10-08-2004, 04:18 AM

Hi,

I've done a search through the forums and haven't managed to find a solution to my particular question.

I'm running the version of wine that ships with suse 9.1 and it seems to run Starcraft with no problems.

I want to be able to run a LAN game with windows machines, what do I need to setup in winesetup and in Suse control centre for this to work?

Hope someone can help!

Dave.

I have an Ethernet 10/100 network card (I think, at varsity so can't really check!)
Running PIII 1.13GHz with 256mB RAM

guitarman85281 · 10-13-2004, 01:19 PM

Greetings
I have no idea where you would obtain one, but you would need and IPX driver for Linux. Starcraft uses IPX for LAN games (it's lightweight, easy to config, etc) so in order to communicate with Windows Starcraft, one would need to be running IPX.

carrie · 10-14-2004, 02:12 AM

WOW I got the same sistem and it just did´nt run starcraft... I´ll check that! I tough it was not supprted

Phyrexicaid · 04-01-2005, 07:54 AM

It's been a long time, my OS has even upgraded to Suse 9.2, and now I have found the Holy Grail!

Quote:

ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 0x12345678". This will create a primary(this is important, Starcraft won't work without a primary interface!!) IPX interface on eth0 of frame-type 802.2 and with the network address 0x12345678. The network address is arbitrary, just make sure that all the machines playing in the game, regardless of the OS they are running, use the SAME network address.

Starcraft howto

So, my palms sweaty with anticipation, how do I make sure that all the computers have the same network address? I'm using a DHCP server, and I have ipx protocols installed on the windows computers, so what needs to be done?

Dave
[EDIT]
I suppose I'm just asking if I change network addresses in windows will I stuff up my network. It's an office network so I can't afford to have it crash

Lobais · 04-02-2005, 07:08 AM

I'm running lots of Lan with my windows and linux machines, but I don't use IPX. Get the newest starcraf patch, and play on the UDP.

Phyrexicaid · 04-05-2005, 01:01 PM

Er, what's UDP?

I loaded the ipx module
modprobe -l ipx

then ran lsmod to check that its there, yup.

I then downloaded the ipx_interface set of programs (ncps) and ran (as root)
$ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 0x12345678
running it as a normal user gave an error.

No apparent problems, (don't know how to check if it's worked as expected) I then went into starcraft and clicked on multiplayer ipx but it said "Unable to initialise provider"

Argh! Am I going to have to dual boot just to play networked starcraft? If ANYONE out there has gotten this to work and wouldn't mind walking me through it...

Dave

Lobais · 04-05-2005, 03:26 PM

UDP is a network client like IPX, both suported by starcraft, but UDP is newer and much better suported by Linux.

Phyrexicaid · 04-11-2005, 09:59 AM

Works like a charm, finally!

Thanks a lot!

Dave