LNX BBC Network Interfaces in VMWare

Seth David Schoen schoen at loyalty.org
Tue Nov 4 05:49:49 GMT 2008


mlists at shadow-security.net writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to configure a test rig of LNX BBC in a VMWare setup.
> 
> Within VMWare I have configured the virtual machine as an "other Linux
> 32-bit" and enabled two host-only network devices.
> 
> My problem is that running 'ifconfig' at the terminal returns only the
> loopback adapter.
> 
> dmesg doesn't appear to show anything network interface related either,
> however if I use the same VM Config with a Knoppix CD I can see (and use)
> the interfaces just fine. Can anyone suggest a possible area where I
> should look?

Try running trivial-net-setup.

(Wow, I haven't typed _that_ in a couple of years...)

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