VMWare, RH9.0, Networking/card

PHPDude · 09-13-2003, 10:47 AM

Right ok, I have VMWare, I have RH 9 as the guest os, I also have Netgear network card FA311. Aparently the driver for it/module is Natsemi.

I have just installed the VMWare tools and basically do nto know what to do from there. When I do modprobe natsemi it says something along the lines of:

init_modules no such device, when I look in the folder for the moudles it does have natsemi.o

I am very much new to linux and just working my way round it. But I realy want to get this to work. Anyone able to help me out, tell me what to do of such, if able to, mind explaining what the line of code does as well pleasE?

Regards

Steve

P.S Also how do I get from X-Windows to just the command line :P

PHPDude · 09-13-2003, 04:01 PM

Anyone at all able to help, ??? please

melody · 09-13-2003, 04:18 PM

try startx

PHPDude · 09-13-2003, 04:19 PM

huh, startx starts the xwindows, startx does not get you out of the xwindows into cml

mlp68 · 09-13-2003, 04:36 PM

I'm going the other way with VMWare, host is RH9, guest is Windows. What network card is physically present in your host system doesn't matter, the VMware BIOS presents a virtual network device, and that's what you need to activate. Try an lspci as root in your VM. But the installation should have found the ethernet "card"???

If you started X at boot by entering run level 5, reboot and enter run level 3. There are many ways to to that, if you want that as default (but why?), change the 5 in line in /etc/inittab from

id:5:initdefault:

to 3.

If you started with startx, ctrl-alt-backspace (not delete) will shut down X. Sinc eyou are much better off with a terminal (or multiple ones) in X, I wonder why you want to go back to the console?

Hope it helps,

mlp

PHPDude · 09-13-2003, 04:39 PM

I am not able to edit the config for vmware while in XFree86 thats why I need ot get out, I am now reinstalling RH 9 in VMware for the hell of it, as I was messing aroundand it seems a little weird now :P
So what, I have to sort out the NIC in the BIOS of VMWare, (F2?)

Regards

Steve

PHPDude · 09-13-2003, 05:07 PM

I could not find anything in the Bios about the network card? Any mor einformation would be greatful

mlp68 · 09-13-2003, 05:19 PM

Is it possible that in the vmware configuration (with the configuration editor) you haven't actually set up a network method?

lspci on my virtual machine says "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] "

I still don't get why you cannot edit stuff while in X. Just open a terminal and you can do whatever you like.

Hope it helps,
mlp