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To: 9fans@9fans.net
Date: Thu,  3 Feb 2011 09:58:00 +0000
From: Nyan Htoo Tin <nyanhtootin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] network connection on virtualbox
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On Feb 2, 9:11=A0pm, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote:
> On Wed Feb =A02 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. =A0did you happen
> to see a message that looks like this on the console?
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 print("#l%d: unknown PCnet card version 0=
x%.7ux\n",
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ether->ctlrno, x&0xFFFFFF=
F);
>
> can you verify a /net/ether0 exists? =A0if 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,