Setting up win98(guest vmware) network?

hydro · 10-13-2003, 03:46 PM

I just want to be able to access the net from the guest system.

This is an a laptop, with a wireless nic

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paul@Apophis:~$ /sbin/route -e 
Kernel IP routing table 
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface 
172.16.18.0     *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 vmnet8 
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 wlan0 
loopback        *               255.0.0.0       U         0 0          0 lo 
default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 wlan0 
paul@Apophis:~$

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root@Apophis:/home/paul# ifconfig 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback   
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0 
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1 
          RX packets:59858 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
          TX packets:59858 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0  
          RX bytes:5266992 (5.0 Mb)  TX bytes:5266992 (5.0 Mb) 
 
vmnet8    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08   
          inet addr:172.16.18.1  Bcast:172.16.18.255  Mask:255.255.255.0 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
          TX packets:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100  
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) 
 
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:5B:0F:13:CF   
          inet addr:192.168.0.3  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
          RX packets:116856 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
          TX packets:217845 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100  
          RX bytes:83505749 (79.6 Mb)  TX bytes:71375459 (68.0 Mb) 
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

How do I config the win98 system?

KevinJ · 10-13-2003, 10:22 PM

When you installed VMware... did you set it up so that the Guest systems have access to the rest of your network? I think there are two ways to set it up... one way your Host box will act as a router and DHCP server for the Guest systems... the other way, the system will simply get its requests passed through to the DHCP server and router on your network.

Does your Win98 Guest system get IP info at boot time? If so.. can you post it here? It may be as simple as setting the DNS servers entries on the Win98 system to what your Linux box has in /etc/resolv.conf

-K

hydro · 10-19-2003, 02:07 AM

how can I tell if it gets on boot time?

KevinJ · 10-20-2003, 05:33 PM

Okay, well, it looks like your Linux host system has a VM interface with the address 172.16.18.1 and a wireless NIC address of 192.168.0.3.

The gateway for your wireless NIC is 192.168.0.1 which is probably a wireless router?? whatever. Anyway, when you boot the Win98 Guest system... does it have any network settings? Is it set for DHCP? I don't remember but I think the Win98 command is "winipcfg" or something like that to check what settings it has.

I am guessing that your gateway should be 172.16.18.1 and your ip address should be 172.16.18.? and your netmask should be 255.255.255.0

If all that is right, you should be able to do something like "ping 172.16.18.1" and if that works then try "ping 192.168.0.3" and then lastly "ping 192.168.0.1". If all that works, then you can try something like "ping google.com". If that doesn't work, then its probably DNS settings. Your Linux box has DNS server IP addresses in /etc/resolv.conf .. those should be given to the Win98 box as "Name Server" addresses.

-K