Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:02:56 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware looking for /dev/vmnet1 rather than 0 Message-ID: <20011114130255.B6273@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <200111141757.fAEHvZl05033@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from dochawk@psu.edu on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:57:35PM -0500 References: <200111141757.fAEHvZl05033@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:57:35PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > vmware has been working fine for months. Suddenly it is now looking > for the wrong virtual network device, /dev/vmnet1, rather than > /dev/vmnet0 (isn't that where it normally goes?) > > I get the message window: "Could not get address for /dev/vmnet1: > Invalid argument. Failed to configure ethernet0." > > I made world last week (yikes, is the grammar correct there? maked > world? make worlded? :), and rebuilt the vmware port. A few days > later, I tried needing to use it immediately, of course :) vmware, and > it failed. Both my linux and windows installations fail. > > There is no /dev/vmnet*, and I find > > > fac13ttyp1:hawk>ls -l /compat/linux/dev/v > vmmon% vmnet1% > Isn't it a kernel module that's loaded from boot.loader? It's been awhile since I've tried it as I was never able to get my guest OS to see the outside network. -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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