[gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

[Valmor de Almeida]

Hello,
I am having a hard time getting wicd to work on gentoo guest. Thought 
that it was a simple matter of emerge and run wicd-client -n to 
configure. I have compiled the correct ethernet driver in the kernel (at 
least I think so). Does anyone have some experience with this or could 
point me to diagnostic approaches? The output of ifconfig -a follows 
below. Don't know why eth1 and not eth0 is there. The HWaddr is 
correctly obtained from the vbox.

Thanks,

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Valmor

ifconfig -a

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:96:75:25
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  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:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  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:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)