[gradsusr] Opengrads in Windows 7

[hersala]

Dear Arlindo and list users:
Thank you for the recognition about solving the problem with Windows
7. But to be honest, it has not been solved by me. I would prefer the
recognition of Pablo Núñez, a good friend and colleague.
Thanks
Hernán

On 13/01/2012, Arlindo da Silva <dasilva at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:36 AM, hersala <hersala at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just got the problem solved. Asking a friend of mine, it turns out I
>> didn't have a loopback adapter installed, so whenever I wasn't on a
>> network, GrADS wouldn't work (no local IP address available, and thus no
>> possibility to communicate with the X server). Installing a loopback
>> adapter solved the problem. That can be done from the Device Manager in
>> the
>> Control Panel. Just choose "Add legacy hardware" from the "Action" menu
>> there, click on Next, then choose "Install the hardware that I manually
>> select from the list (Advanced)" and click Next, choose "Network
>> adapters",
>> then proceed to the next step and wait for the lists to be populated.
>> Choose "Microsoft" as the manufacturer, and finally "Microsoft Loopback
>> Adapter". Let the newly created adapter initialize and that should do the
>> trick.
>>
>>
> Thank you very for solving this mystery. I have added your solution to our
> Wiki and "Getting Started" file. I have stopped using Windows years ago, no
> wonder I never ran into this problem. The ultimate solution would be to
> rewrite the graphics engine to skip the X11 layer altogether.
> Unfortunately, grads relies heavily on X windows and to preserve all the
> functionality will take some effort.
>
>    Arlindo
>
> --
> Arlindo da Silva
> dasilva at alum.mit.edu
>