Temporary solution to listen bind failed error.

Temporary or permanent solution to "listen socket bind failure"?

After getting stuck at the above error and without external input, I read more manuals than one would ever want to do. Linux man are not the easiest and most entertaining pieces to read and understand.

However, before getting into modifying certain files mentioned in the manuals, I tried another approach because I had seen an inet address in one of my lsof -i results that looked very similar to the inet address shown in the Sprint4GDeveloperPackxxx.

In my uncuccessful attempts to connect to wimax I had used the inet address 192.168.1.100 and related sub-addresses.
Today I replaced it with:
169.254.0.0.
(That is similar to the inet address shown in the above Sprint instructions and a connection address revealed by lsof -i earlier today while the 3G part of U600 was running)

It gives eth1:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr f4:63:49:xx:xx:
          inet addr:169.254.0.0  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0    <-----------------
          inet6 addr: fe80::f663:49ff:fe07:279d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1400  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Thereafter:

wimaxd server started.
Then: wimaxc -i, which results in > search

Search returns:
Network search returned 0 base stations.			<-----------------------------------

So far, so good.

CLI sudo lsof -i gives among many others:
wimaxd    27428   root    5u  IPv4 141276  0t0  TCP localhost:5200 (LISTEN)	<-------------

This time there is even the correct port 5200.

We will see what happens when I connect the external antenna sometimes this weekend.