On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:

> I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have
> searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours
> experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out
> and has never worked since.

Is the host on a wired or wireless network? I found bridged wouldn't work
over wireless, so I use NAT on my laptop.


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Neil Bothwick wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:


I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have
searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours
experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out
and has never worked since.



Is the host on a wired or wireless network? I found bridged wouldn't work
over wireless, so I use NAT on my laptop.



There is a unofficial hack discussed at
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/95630?tstart=0&start=0. It has
worked for many but not for me. If anyone knows any other tricks, I'd
be happy to hear about them. I'm using a gentoo 2.6.23-r5 kernel with
the Broadcom 4311 driver.


Cheers,

Drew





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on 02/05/2008 10:21 AM Neil Bothwick said the following:

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:

I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have
searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours
experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out
and has never worked since.


Is the host on a wired or wireless network? I found bridged wouldn't work
over wireless, so I use NAT on my laptop


I have both, but bridged networking (for me) works with neither. With
eth0, I get a Limited Connectivity state in WinXP; with ath0 (D-Link
DWL-G650 PC card) I get Disabled.


I recently tried the vanilla 2.6.23-14 vanilla sources to see if that
made a difference, but it did not. Of course I used the same .config
file that I am using for my gentoo-sources kernel.


If someone could send me their .config file for
gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r6 that they use on a laptop, I'll give that it
a try.


--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic

on 02/05/2008 10:21 AM Neil Bothwick said the following:

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:

I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have
searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours
experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out
and has never worked since.


Is the host on a wired or wireless network? I found bridged wouldn't work
over wireless, so I use NAT on my laptop.


I don't know if this is relevant, but two things:

1. The VMware devices that are used are VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet
Adapter #5 (for NAT on vmnet8) and VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet
Adapter #4 (for eth0 on vmnet0). I wonder why they aren't assigned to
adapters in the range 0-3? I never see adapter #0 or #1, even when I
use WinXP's Device Manager (with hidden devices visible).


2. There is a Gentoo directory called /etc/vmware/vmnet8, but no
directory /etc/vmware0. Yes, the eth0 bridge is up:


$ ps -efww | fgrep bridge
==>
root 30055 1 0 09:32 ? 00:00:00
/opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmnet-bridge -d
/var/run/vmnet-bridge-0.pid /dev/vmnet0 eth0


/dev/vmnet0 exists and has the same owner and permissions as /dev/vmnet8.

--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic

on 02/07/2008 11:56 AM Vladimir G. Ivanovic said the following:
2. There is a Gentoo directory called /etc/vmware/vmnet8, but no
directory /etc/vmware0. Yes, the eth0 bridge is up:

^^^^^^^^^^^^
should be
/etc/vmwware/vmnet0

--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic