RE: [Thinkpad] XP Thinkpad, Linux under VMWare: no network connection

I have VMWare setup on a T40p. Windows XP is the host operating system and
I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 WS in VMWare. When I initially
installed Linux it could not detect the Ethernet driver. A search of
VMWare's support site revealed that I needed to edit the file called
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 by adding the following lines at
the end of it.

check_link_down () {
  return 1;
}

My understanding is that during the startup phase Linux is having trouble
detecting the driver. The detection code is run inside a function called
check_link_down, and by adding this to the ifcfg-eth0 file you effectively
override the check and simply report that the Ethernet is present.

Once you make this change in the Linux configuration I suspect you will have
network access as well.

Cheers

-- Bennett
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org] On Behalf Of jrdiii@comcast.net
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 6:55 AM
> To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> Subject: [Thinkpad] XP Thinkpad, Linux under VMWare: no
> network connection
>
> After the enthusiastic endorsement of VMWare as an
> alternative to dual-booting, I installed it on my R50 running
> XP and tried to create a Linux virtual machine. All goes well
> until I get to the point of setting up the Linux networking
> (to download the rest of the system): the virtual machine
> can't talk to the outside world (all pings fail) despite the
> fact that the host machine has a working wired connection to
> the net, VMWare was set to bridge to that connection, and the
> virtual machine has been given an IP address in our company domain.
>
> Any suggestions? I've spent several hours investigating this
> and have run into a dead end.
>
> many thanks in advance
> Justin
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Received on Fri Jan 30 10:40:34 2004