24) Summary steps in activating LAN connection in VMWare if problems still occur after post 22

Comment by Jean:

Summary steps in activating LAN connection in VMWare if there are still problems in connecting online (after post 22):

a) lspci -vvv and ifconfig -a (display output below, checking what hardware the VMplayer is running from)


02:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V, AudioPCI128
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- TAbort- SERR- Latency: 64 (1500ns min, 63750ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: I/O ports at 2080 [size=64]
Kernel driver in use: ENS1371
Kernel modules: snd-ens1371

02:02.0 USB Controller: VMware Inc Abstract USB2 EHCI Controller (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: VMware Inc Abstract USB2 EHCI Controller
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- TAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (1500ns min, 63750ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at e8900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:bf:37:04
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2024

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:210 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:210 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:424561 (414.6 KiB) TX bytes:424561 (414.6 KiB)



b) dhcpcd -k eth1 (kill eth1)

c) ifconfig eth1 up (restart eth1)

d) dhcpcd -nd eth1 (do dhcp call and look for packet advertising the network server from the host, and if found, it will assign an IP address to eth1.)

e) ifconfig eth1 (check that eth1 has an ip now)