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 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list