(fedora) Re: CiscoVPN freezes F8 (x86-64)

[Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen]

Srdan Tosovic <tos at prip.tuwien.ac.at> wrote on 14-DEC-2007 00:32:01.52

>On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:12:49 +0100 (MET)
>"Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen" <joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> While on my i686 CiscoVPN-client works fine, on my x86-64 system it
>> freezes the whole system when trying to make a connection to the
>> server.
>> 
>> I'm running Fedora 8 with the latest 2.6.23 kernel from updates. I
>> tried several versions 4.8.x of the Cisco-client.
>> 
>> Does anyone has a tip on getting a "working version" of the
>> CiscoVPN-client.
>
>The version 4.8.00.0490-k9 works fine for me on F8 x86_64.  I had to:
>1) Apply the patch from
>http://tuxx-home.at/projects/cisco-vpnclient/vpnclient-linux-2.6.22.diff
>2) After compiling, fix the permissions of cvpnd:
>chmod 4111 /opt/cisco-vpnclient/bin/cvpnd
>
>Hope this helps,
Thanks, this one works. I tried a 4.8.01.0640-k9, which does not need to be
patched, but it seems that the "newer" version is not suitable for x86-64,
while it runs without problems on i686.

             Jouk


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