Hey all. OK, SETI Driver works fine under Wine, crunches units beautifully even while the native Linux client is also running. But it won't send any units-- I had to turn auto transmit off, and it won't send even if I try manually (though the program continues to run fine). I tried adding a proxy server, but that didn't seem to help-- though I'm not sure, as I don't get a console output showing me the progress of the transmit, even if I check "Display Transmit" in SETI Driver (thus it doesn't magically open wineconsole or something :-( ). I assume that the problem is that Wine doesn't know how to find my LAN Internet connection, but I don't know how to tell it what to do. Can anyone help? If you think it's annoying having to boot into Windows solely to play a game, imagine how annoying it is to have to boot into Windows solely to spend 30 seconds uploading SETI units for your boyfriend.... ;-) TIA, Holly
>If you think it's annoying having to boot into Windows >solely to play a game, imagine how annoying it is to have to boot into >Windows solely to spend 30 seconds uploading SETI units for your >boyfriend.... ;-)If you can use the native linux seti program, I don't think it's a big issue, the developers have lots of programs to work on that don't have a linux version, and they have prioraty. Also, SETI@home is a program, not a driver. Finally, the wine project has a seti team, if you want to join the site is http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_172471.html
Holly Bostick wrote:> Hey all. > > OK, SETI Driver works fine under Wine, crunches units beautifully even > while the native Linux client is also running. > > But it won't send any units-- I had to turn auto transmit off, and it > won't send even if I try manually (though the program continues to run > fine). I tried adding a proxy server, but that didn't seem to help-- > though I'm not sure, as I don't get a console output showing me the > progress of the transmit, even if I check "Display Transmit" in SETI > Driver (thus it doesn't magically open wineconsole or something :-( ).I went ahead and installed the Windows version of SETI (even though I normally run the Linux version), and tried it with the current CVS version of Wine. It sent my units just fine; at least it claims to have, and downloaded a new data set, all automatically.> I assume that the problem is that Wine doesn't know how to find my LAN > Internet connection, but I don't know how to tell it what to do.Wine should automatically use your correct LAN connection. There is no configuration to do, and you should not be using a proxy setting unless you really do have a proxy server.> > Can anyone help? If you think it's annoying having to boot into Windows > solely to play a game, imagine how annoying it is to have to boot into > Windows solely to spend 30 seconds uploading SETI units for your > boyfriend.... ;-)Well, I don't really understand why you would want to do that, since you already have the Linux version of SETI. But I guess maybe mention what version of Wine you are using, and if not very recent, perhaps try upgrading.
Why dont you download the seti program for unix-3.08? Holly Bostick wrote:> Hey all. > > OK, SETI Driver works fine under Wine, crunches units beautifully even > while the native Linux client is also running. > > But it won't send any units-- I had to turn auto transmit off, and it > won't send even if I try manually (though the program continues to run > fine). I tried adding a proxy server, but that didn't seem to help-- > though I'm not sure, as I don't get a console output showing me the > progress of the transmit, even if I check "Display Transmit" in SETI > Driver (thus it doesn't magically open wineconsole or something :-( ). > > I assume that the problem is that Wine doesn't know how to find my LAN > Internet connection, but I don't know how to tell it what to do. > > Can anyone help? If you think it's annoying having to boot into > Windows solely to play a game, imagine how annoying it is to have to > boot into Windows solely to spend 30 seconds uploading SETI units for > your boyfriend.... ;-) > > TIA, > > Holly > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > >
OK, it seems to be time to clear up this confusion, as several people have responded with advice to either run the native Linux SETI client, or warnings that running two units at once will slow the processing down so much that it won't be worth it. Well, first of all, that wasn't my question, but fine..... As it happens, I do run both the Linux and Windows clients simultaneously (which is to say that I know about the Linux client, thank you all), and it appears that running SETI Driver (which then runs the Windows command-line SETI client) while the native Linux client is running *only slows down the native client, not the Windows client*. The Linux client slows down to half-speed, but the Windows client runs at the same speed (just about), so in the same time I get about half a unit more done per cycle. If I'm not using my PC, this can add up by the end of 24 hours. We only have two machines on our little team-within-a-team, so if I can crunch a few extra units for us, I like to do so, as it keeps the previously-mentioned boyfriend happy, and he's the only reason I'm farking around with SETI in the first place. I have not tried running the Windows SETI client alone (without SETI Driver), to see if this effect is caused by the way that SETI Driver interacts with it (i.e., the Windows client would slow down if it was running without SETI Driver, or was being cached by lin-seti or setiproxy rather than SETI Driver), and I have not tried running SETI Driver or the Windows client from a Linux partition, to see if that would cause the traditional slowdown. Nor have I done a consistent test to gather "hard data" on this phenomenon, but it does appear that I crunch more units with the two clients running under my current configuration. With that out of the way, my "problem" is that SETI Driver seems unable to transmit completed units. This does not affect anything, since it continues to process even when trying and failing to transmit, and of course I can turn auto transmit and display transmit off (which I have done). However, it does mean that I have to stop what I'm doing and reboot to Windows to upload the units, which is naturally a bit annoying. I assumed that this was a problem with my Wine settings which needed to be adjusted in order to allow SETI Driver to do whatever it does to upload the units. But since I don't know anything about how either Wine or SETI Driver work, I might be completely wrong and the problem is with settings in SETI Driver, or perhaps there is no such Wine configuration setting that the user can adjust. I do not know, which is why I asked if someone here might know enough about their operation to suggest what might be the problem, given that SETI Driver appears to work perfectly otherwise under Wine20030813 for both Debian and Slackware. Holly