one of my clients started playing around with vitual machine images on VMware player, VMware server (free edition) and Virtualbox. we tried hosting ready-made images from the net as well as local installs of Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04 and Fedora8 with an XPO machine as host. in all cases we add a few packages (not upgrading kernel), reboot and find that we have no real LAN connection. ethtool shows link is up but no DHCP replies are coming. I bumped into Network-Manager there and could not figure out where it stores the configs so on the Ubuntu I ust removed it (and saw the eth definition show up in /etc/network/interfaces instead, yay!), but a reboot left me still with no LAN connection.
I thought it was the VMware tools I compiled, but the same happend on Virtualbox! and both before and after the reboot, it was the same pcnet32 driver, taking it out and insmodding again made no difference. then I accidentaly discovered booting at Single-luser mode left me with working LAN and dhcp, which worked if I then continued to runlevel 2 (Ubuntu), but booting to runlevel2 the normal way left me disconnected again. this is REPEATABLE. till I find a solution, I told the guy to boot to "recovery mode" and just hit "ctrl-D" at the single-user-mode prompt, and then LAN works. anyone got an explanation for this extremely odd behvior?! -- The Smartest Man on Earth Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
