Network problems!

[Nonsense]

Hi all,
i just created my system bit i cannot do 'PING'. So i tried :

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/sbin/ifconfig

and i gt this.

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets: 17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets: 17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes: 306 (306.0 B) TX bytesL 306 (306.0 B)

How do i add a new setting as i'm using VMware to run the OS
Please advice. Thank You

[elgato319]

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ifconfig eth0 up
net-setup eth0

or manual

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ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth0 192.168.x.x/24
route add default gw 192.168.x.x
echo nameserver 192.168.x.x > /etc/resolv.conf

be sure that the nic is detected correctly at bootup

good documentation: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86 ... nstall.xml

[Nonsense]

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ifconfig eth0 up
net-setup eth0

or manual

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ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth0 192.168.x.x/24
route add default gw 192.168.x.x
echo nameserver 192.168.x.x > /etc/resolv.conf

be sure that the nic is detected correctly at bootup

good documentation: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86 ... nstall.xml

Hi elgato319,
i tried this command :

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ifconfig eth0 up

but it prompts me:

eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

Please advice.

[b0nafide]

eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

Make sure you have kernel support for the e1000 network card as well.

I'm guessing that you haven't installed vmware-tools or run vmware-config-tools.pl yet.

[Nonsense]

eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

Make sure you have kernel support for the e1000 network card as well.

I'm guessing that you haven't installed vmware-tools or run vmware-config-tools.pl yet.

hi b0nafide,
However, i'm running on the command line instead of the GUI. How do i run the installer?
Or do the settings?

Please advice.
Thanks

[cach0rr0]

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modprobe vmnet

Is it...I think.

I'd be more inclined to think there's a kernel configuration problem in your guest, rather than host.

What's your lspci -n look like?

In terms of running vmware-config.pl or whatever, the ebuild should tell you what needs to be run in the build messages after you've emerged the package.

They're just perl scripts, so you'd run "perl /path/to/file.pl"

Assuming you've already done that, you just need the right NIC driver in your guest's kernel, as mentioned above. The links in my sig should help.

[b0nafide]

I'd be more inclined to think there's a kernel configuration problem in your guest, rather than host.

Indeed!

Configure your kernel and install vmware-tools - and yes, it can be done from bash.

from http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VMware_Guest :

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You need to build the network drivers as modules to be able to unload them later and load vmware optimized modules.
Device Drivers  --->
   Network Device support  --->
        [*] Network device support
             Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)  --->
                [*] Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
                [*] EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers
                <M>   AMD PCnet32 PCI support
             Ethernet (1000Mbit)  --->
                [M] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support

[Nonsense]

I'd be more inclined to think there's a kernel configuration problem in your guest, rather than host.

Indeed!

Configure your kernel and install vmware-tools - and yes, it can be done from bash.

from http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VMware_Guest :

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You need to build the network drivers as modules to be able to unload them later and load vmware optimized modules.
Device Drivers  --->
   Network Device support  --->
        [*] Network device support
             Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)  --->
                [*] Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
                [*] EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers
                <M>   AMD PCnet32 PCI support
             Ethernet (1000Mbit)  --->
                [M] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support

Hi,

So do you mean that i have to load Vmware-tools before rebooting the system?

[b0nafide]

So do you mean that i have to load Vmware-tools before rebooting the system?

When installing, the VM mounts a CD-ROM image with the stuff you will need (no network required).

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VMware_G ... ware_Tools