From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 21 3:43:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83F5D37B418 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 03:43:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 21 Nov 2001 11:43:06 +0000 (GMT) To: CHOI Junho Cc: hm@hcs.de, "Georg-W. Koltermann" , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: vmware fails on -current In-Reply-To: Your message of "21 Nov 2001 18:25:58 +0900." <86lmh0h3vd.fsf@gradius.wdb.co.kr> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:43:05 +0000 From: Ian Dowse Message-ID: <200111211143.aa48211@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <86lmh0h3vd.fsf@gradius.wdb.co.kr>, CHOI Junho writes: > >Hmm.. I have experienced another problem(-current of 19 Nov.) with >vmware. When it runs it comes up with the following dialog: > > "Encountered an error while initializing the ethernet address. > You probably have an old vnet driver. Try installing a newer version > Failed to configure ethernet0" Hi, could you try to get a ktrace of what it is doing just before this happens? Run ktrace -i vmware as root (you may need to copy your ~/.vmware to ~root first). Then use "linux_kdump -n" (/usr/ports/devel/linux_kdump) and look for any ioctls that it does immediately before giving that error message. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message