Sorry for being a bit offtopic here, but I simply hope for some experienced help in this group ...
I run VMware-Server 2.0.1 on a gentoo amd64-box. Things work OK, I have various guests (gentoo, ubuntu, xp, solaris, ...) and all of them work fine. Right now I am trying to virtualize an ancient Suse Linux 6.2 box which is running Linux 2.2.5. It boots OK, I adjusted network-settings, chose the pcnet32-module, attached that adapter to the bridged network and set the correct IP/netmask. The device is found at startup, dmesg shows it and no errors. ifconfig shows eth0 correct as well, but: it does not ping ... I am not able to ping the guest ... the arp-cache doesn not fill ... I simply don't know. This is crucial as a VM without network is simply not useful. Could this relate to some virtual hardware not yet supported by the old kernel? I see "Unknown device 15ad:07a0" in lspci, which seems to show that I use a VM with version 7 ... maybe that's too new for that kernel. Will try to use an older one and compare. I am unsure if installing vmware-tools would even work? Does someone here have some tips for me how to get that box online? Thank you, Stefan
