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Cannot open /dev/sheep_net error

Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2019 1:11 am
by equant
I'm running Basilisk II on linux and getting the following error about my ethernet...

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Basilisk II V1.0 by Christian Bauer et al.
Reading ROM file...
selected Ethernet device type sheep_net
WARNING: Cannot open /dev/sheep_net (No such file or directory). Ethernet will not be available.
I'd really like to get MacTCP working. When I start Basilisk II, it see's my wifi device in the preference/options gui. I select it, and still get the error above.

Any ideas on how to tackle this problem?

Thanks

Re: Cannot open /dev/sheep_net error

Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2019 6:24 am
by equant
I found that I needed to load the sheep_net.ko module. Loading one that I found in these forums that was marked as for Ubuntu didn't work. I built a new sheep_net.ko from source, and then I had to go through some additional steps to sign it so that I could insmod it.

One question I have is... why don't I see an option for slirp in Basilisk II?

My second question is, what should my MacTCP settings be? I can't get anything to work. Here is the output of ifconfig for my wifi device in linux...

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wlp63s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 172.20.7.10  netmask 255.255.240.0  broadcast 172.20.15.255
        inet6 fe80::bc3f:7369:c2fa:767c  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:e1:8c:74:a1:49  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 24898  bytes 13524631 (13.5 MB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 13828  bytes 2278169 (2.2 MB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
resolve.conf shows my DNS to be: 127.0.0.53

What class should I be using? What about my gateway address? Will it matter if I'm connecting via a captive portal?

Thanks.

Re: Cannot open /dev/sheep_net error

Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 1:55 pm
by wcsuther
Did you ever figure out what was going on with your setup? I have the same problems. "slirp" doesn't seem to be an option for me, although I can get Baslisk to boot if I type in 'Slirp' (with a a capital 'S') for some reason. I also compiled sheep_net from the source, but am unable to modprobe it...