FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 9:51 am, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2008 2:33 pm, Michael C. Cambria wrote:
> > Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> > >  I've followed a
> > > couple of posts in other forums (or fora, if you prefer :-)  ) that
> > > suggest using the e1000 NIC driver (e.g.
> > > communities.vmware.com/message/352504), but it fails.  This is the last
> > > piece I need to make work.  Suggestions?
> >
> > What's the problem you see?
> >
> > All I've ever needed to do was edit my .vmx file and add:
> >
> > ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
> >
> > MikeC
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
> So, Mike, do I do nothing with the "ifconfig_le0=" line in /etc/rc.conf? 
> The post I read said to change it to "ifconfig_em0= ...", but that didn't
> seem to work.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dimitri


More info. - I added ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" to the vmx file and 
rebooted the FBSD server.  I have network connectivity, but a check of dmesg 
shows the following:

le0: <AMD PCnet-PCI> port 0x1400-0x147f irq 18 at device 17.0 on pci0

So, am I not using the virtual e1000?

Dimitri

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