Re: [9fans] network connection on virtualbox

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> > > Hi, Running plan 9 on virtual box 4.0.2, I've configured network
> > > adaptaters as below.
> > > Attached to NAT
> > > Adapter type: PCnet-FAST 3(Am79C973)
> > > check cable connected.
> >
> > > After booting plan 9, I typed ip/ipconfig, after waiting some time,
> > > ipconfig: no success with DHCP.
> > > I don't know what's wrong??
> > > Please help.
> >
> > virtualbox is finicky and what works depends a lot on the
> > version of vb and it seems to depend on your own hardware.
> >
> > the 79c973 driver doesn't track link state currently, so there's
> > limited ways i can think of to remotely help.  did you happen
> > to see a message that looks like this on the console?
> >
> >                 print("#l%d: unknown PCnet card version 0x%.7ux\n",
> >                         ether->ctlrno, x&0xFFFFFFF);
> >
> > can you verify a /net/ether0 exists?  if the answers are no and yes,
> > then it might be worth running snoopy in another window
> > to verify that you can see any packets.
> >
> > you might also try another emulated chipset.
> >
> > - erik
>
> I tried on Qemu, still same problem even though now ip/ipconfig and
> ndb/dns -r seems ok,

i don't understand the problem, then.  i thought it was that ip/ipconfig
didn't work.  what is it?

- erik