On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:28:38PM -0500, Nate Carlson (natecars at real-time.com) wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Amy Tanner wrote:
> > It turns out dhcp just wasn't working and I couldn't figure out why.
> > I installed pump and that grabbed a dhcp address fine.  Wierd - it was
> > working fine with the other kernel.
> 
> Recent versions of RedHat 9 don't detect a link on the NIC under VMWare,
> and refuse to ifup the interface since they don't see a link. Not sure
> what distro you're running, and I doubt it's that since you said it works
> with the other kernel, but it may have something to do it.. (with rh9, a
> manual dhclient eth0 brings it up just fine.)

I was running debian stable.
 
> > > First thing I usually do when setting up a new VMWare Linux guest is
> > > delete the SCSI drive they automatically set up and change it to IDE. Why
> > > they do SCSI, I have no idea..
> >
> > How do you do that?  I thought they picked the drivers due to stability.
> 
> Hmm, that's lame - in VMWare 3, you just went in and removed the SCSI
> device and added a new IDE device.. in VMWare 4, doesn't look like it
> gives you the option! So, disregard that if you're a VMWare 4 user, I
> guess..

Yep, running VMWare 4.

-- 
Amy Tanner
amy at real-time.com

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