Hi,



During my testing of hardy alpha 4 on VMware ESX 3.0.2 I have so far found a problem with the network

driver. Im using linux-virtual as my kernel.



As I understand it the pcnet32 driver should be replaced with the vmxnet driver. The kernel loads both the pcnet32 and

the vmxnet driver. This causes a problem since we need to rmmod both pcnet32 and vmxnet driver and then modprobe

the vmxnet driver again and finally restart networking!



There is also a bug in the open-vm-tools package. The /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools script calls a function named vmxnet_needed

but doesn't check the return value from the function using $?. Either that or this is due to my limited knowledge of dash...



----< cut >----

--- open-vm-tools*******2008-02-10 20:14:20.000000000 +0100

+++ /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools***2008-02-10 20:15:30.000000000 +0100

@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@

****************log_progress_msg "vmhgfs"; modprobe vmhgfs

****************log_progress_msg "vmmemctl"; modprobe vmmemctl

****************log_end_msg 0

-***************if vmxnet_needed

+

+ ***************vmxnet_needed

+***************if [ $? -eq 1 ]

****************then

************************rmmod pcnet32

************************modprobe vmxnet

@@ -63,7 +65,9 @@

************************kill `cat /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid`

****************fi

****************log_end_msg 0

-***************if vmxnet_needed

+

+***************vmxnet_needed

+ ***************if [ $? -eq 1 ]

****************then

************************rmmod vmxnet

************************modprobe pcnet32

----< cut >----





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Hi,

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:59:48PM +0100, Rönnblom Janåke /Teknous wrote:
> During my testing of hardy alpha 4 on VMware ESX 3.0.2 I have so far found a
> problem with the network
> driver. Im using linux-virtual as my kernel.

Thanks for taking the time to test and report it. Could you file a bug
against the open-vm-tools package [1] ? If you could also attach your
patch so that we can fix the bug quickly.

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+filebug

Thank you,

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