Re: [gentoo-user] Weird networking problem

[Sebastian Günther]

* Michael Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21.09.08 21:59]:
> I’m trying to set up Gentoo in a Virtualbox on my laptop (running Windows
> Vista).  I’m using the 2007 liveCD image, although I’ve had this same
> problem with the 2008 liveCD image.  The problem is that I can access web
> pages with links, like www.gentoo.org, but I can’t ping anything.  Also,
> when I tried to download the stage tarball in links, it just showed me a
> console-graphical representation of the data in the tarball and would not
> allow me to download the data as a tarball.  When I tried to use wget to
> get the data, it gave me the same problem as ping did – that the location
> did not exist.   What should I do?   The IP address of the laptop is
> 192.168.1.102 with the gw at 192.168.1.1, but ifconfig claims the laptop
> is using inet address 10.0.2.15, yet still somehow it can get to
> www.gentoo.org.  What should I do?
> 

Read the documentation of your virtualbox solution, search for bridging.

> 
HTH
Sebastian

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