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From: Nyan Htoo Tin <nyanhtootin@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] network connection on virtualbox
Date: Thu,  3 Feb 2011 09:58:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <df8af61a-8923-4145-aa53-1bd833810182@s11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b71b7b86a51d2ab041f7081ca024fe2@chula.quanstro.net>

On Feb 2, 9:11 pm, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote:
> On Wed Feb  2 05:04:07 EST 2011, nyanhtoo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > 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,



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-03  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3f60b9b0-81a6-419e-9bf9-b36d512c90d0@o39g2000prb.googlegroups.co>
2011-02-02 13:06 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-02 13:53   ` Fernan Bolando
2011-02-03  9:58   ` Nyan Htoo Tin [this message]
     [not found]   ` <df8af61a-8923-4145-aa53-1bd833810182@s11g2000yqh.googlegroups.co>
2011-02-03 13:06     ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-02 10:01 Nyan Htoo Tin

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