On Feb 2, 9:11 pm, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote:
> On Wed Feb 2 05:04:07 EST 2011, nyanhtoo...@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.
>
> 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,
