From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 14 20:02:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E484416A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:02:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rotfl.com.au (eth1779.sa.adsl.internode.on.net [150.101.235.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE26843D45 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:02:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Phil@Kernick.org) Received: from undisclosed by mail.rotfl.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E7C74406; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:32:07 +0930 (CST) Received: from mail.rotfl.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.rotfl.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 35671-02; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:32:04 +0930 (CST) Received: from undisclosed by mail.rotfl.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ABD574402; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:32:04 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <407DFB2E.3050405@Kernick.org> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:32:06 +0930 From: Phil Kernick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= References: <407D5069.5020709@netvision.com.br> In-Reply-To: <407D5069.5020709@netvision.com.br> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at rotfl.com.au cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lnc problem with 4.9 as guest in VMWare X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 03:02:10 -0000 I have a WinXP Pro machine running VMWare 4.5.1 with a FreeBSD 4.9 virtual machine and it works just fine. lnc0 works exactly as expected. Do have something similar to this in /etc/rc.conf? network_interfaces="lo0 lnc0" ifconfig_lnc0="DHCP" Phil. André wrote: > > I've gotten a P4 1.5Ghz with Win Server 2003 and VMWare 4.5.1. As the > guest OS in VMWare I installed FreeBSD 4.9, and am using the GENERIC > kernel. The problem is that the network card does not appear in ifconfig. > dmesg has the following to say about the network card in VMWare: > > lnc0: port 0x1080-0x10ff irq 10 at device > 17.0 on pci0 > lnc0: driver is using old-style compatibility shims > > but "ifconfig -a" does not show the lnc interface. > What could cause FreeBSD to see the network card (as seen in the dmesg > output) but ifconfig not to show it? > > I'm downloading FreeBSD 4.10-BETA and 5.2.1 right now. I'll send > another email if any of those versions work. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"