From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 11: 3: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB50A37B416 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:03:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.core.com (shell.voyager.net [169.207.1.89]) by out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fAEJ2uU70242; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:02:56 -0600 (CST) Received: (from dpoland@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) id fAEJ2uW06848; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:02:56 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:02:56 -0600 From: Doug Poland To: "Richard E. Hawkins" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware looking for /dev/vmnet1 rather than 0 Message-ID: <20011114130255.B6273@polands.org> References: <200111141757.fAEHvZl05033@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111141757.fAEHvZl05033@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from dochawk@psu.edu on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:57:35PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:57:35PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > vmware has been working fine for months. Suddenly it is now looking > for the wrong virtual network device, /dev/vmnet1, rather than > /dev/vmnet0 (isn't that where it normally goes?) > > I get the message window: "Could not get address for /dev/vmnet1: > Invalid argument. Failed to configure ethernet0." > > I made world last week (yikes, is the grammar correct there? maked > world? make worlded? :), and rebuilt the vmware port. A few days > later, I tried needing to use it immediately, of course :) vmware, and > it failed. Both my linux and windows installations fail. > > There is no /dev/vmnet*, and I find > > > fac13ttyp1:hawk>ls -l /compat/linux/dev/v > vmmon% vmnet1% > Isn't it a kernel module that's loaded from boot.loader? It's been awhile since I've tried it as I was never able to get my guest OS to see the outside network. -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message