Hi.
I run gentoo as my main Os.
Because i don't own more than 1 computer, i installed vmware, so i have the possibility to install other Os', try other configurations and so on, all without a single reboot or the chance that i damage my gentoo computer.

Now the Question :
On that vmware i have installed windows xp, another Gentoo installation and mandrake 9.2
Window Xp and Gentoo have network and everything runs fine, even at hight res. ( 1280x1024 ) really nice.

However with mandrake i cant get the network up and running.
aim using the exact the same settings on the vmware, for both the gentoo and the mandrake install, that is NAT on vmware, then on the OS.s set it to dhcp .

On gentoo there is no problem, or in wndows, so i cant understand what is wrong with mandrake so it doesn't work.

Anyone experience this ? or if you indeed have mandrake installed on vmware where the host is some other linux distro, and the network is ok, could you please post your configuration files, evt. what you have done to solve this.


Thank you very much for taking the time to read my post.

Best regards
ikaro

I had that same problem. Want to know the fix?

Well here it is.


1) First edit the "ifcfg-eth0" file which is located in the following folder;

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts


2) Once you have located the file, and opened it for editing. You will need to add to the end of the list the following statment;

MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes

3) Save the file and reboot. Windows talk.

Anyway happy networking & surfing.