On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:03:45PM -0500, Nate Carlson (natecars at real-time.com) wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Amy Tanner wrote:
> > I've got a linux guest OS under vmware.  When compiling a new kernel,
> > which compile options do I need to get the networking to work?  I have
> > CONFIG_PCNET32=y but I must be missing something.
> 
> Hrm, pcnet32 should be all you need -- when you boot the kernel with that,
> what do you see in dmesg related to that device? May be easier to play
> with as a module.

It turns out dhcp just wasn't working and I couldn't figure out why.  I
installed pump and that grabbed a dhcp address fine.  Wierd - it was
working fine with the other kernel.
 
> > Also, if anyone has a list of the vmware-specific options I need for a
> > linux guest OS (like CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC), that'd be great.  I looked
> > around on the vmware site and google, but couldn't find anything.
> 
> First thing I usually do when setting up a new VMWare Linux guest is
> delete the SCSI drive they automatically set up and change it to IDE. Why
> they do SCSI, I have no idea..

How do you do that?  I thought they picked the drivers due to stability.
-- 
Amy Tanner
amy at real-time.com

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