Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

network connection on virtualbox

129 views
Skip to first unread message

Nyan Htoo Tin

unread,
Feb 2, 2011, 5:01:12 AM2/2/11
to
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.

Thanks in advance.

Nyan

erik quanstrom

unread,
Feb 2, 2011, 8:11:20 AM2/2/11
to

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. did you happen
to see a message that looks like this on the console?

print("#l%d: unknown PCnet card version 0x%.7ux\n",
ether->ctlrno, x&0xFFFFFFF);

can you verify a /net/ether0 exists? if 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

Fernan Bolando

unread,
Feb 2, 2011, 8:54:50 AM2/2/11
to
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:06 PM, erik quanstrom <quan...@quanstro.net> wrote:
> On Wed Feb  2 05:04:07 EST 2011, nyanh...@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.
>

I am using intel pro below under vb 4.02 snowleopard. It also worked
on 3.12. I am also using 9atom not the official iso. You should find a
month or 2 old thread regarding this if you do a search

Adapter 1:
Intel PRO/1000 MT Server (Bridged adapter, en1: AirPort)

Nyan Htoo Tin

unread,
Feb 3, 2011, 4:58:00 AM2/3/11
to
On Feb 2, 9:11 pm, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote:

I tried on Qemu, still same problem even though now ip/ipconfig and
ndb/dns -r seems ok,

erik quanstrom

unread,
Feb 3, 2011, 8:38:22 AM2/3/11
to
> > > 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.  did you happen
> > to see a message that looks like this on the console?
> >
> >                 print("#l%d: unknown PCnet card version 0x%.7ux\n",
> >                         ether->ctlrno, x&0xFFFFFFF);
> >
> > can you verify a /net/ether0 exists?  if 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,

i don't understand the problem, then. i thought it was that ip/ipconfig
didn't work. what is it?

- erik

0 new messages