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Hi, |
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I'm running Gentoo on an Acer Travelmate 7750 laptop. This particular |
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laptop has a Broadcom wireless NIC that only works with the |
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proprietary Broadcom wl driver as provided by the broadcom-sta ebuild. |
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Wireless by itself works perfectly fine, but when I use virtualbox |
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with the virtual NIC bridged to my wlan0 interface, networking in the |
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guest OS doesn't work properly. |
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I have made the following observations: |
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* when the guest OS is configured to use DHCP it doesn't get an IP |
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from my DHCP server, but get an autoconfig IP instead |
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* however, I can see the DHCP requests towards my DHCP server in |
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Gentoo when monitoring the wlan0 interface with |
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# tcpdump -i wlan0 |
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* when I configure a static IP on the guest OS, I cannot ping from the |
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guest to the Gentoo host or my default gateway, but pinging from the |
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Gentoo host or my gateway to the guest OS works fine |
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I manage my wireless NIC through /etc/conf.d/net, using wpa_supplicant |
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with the wext driver. I also tried using networkmanager, but that gave |
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the exact same result. |
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Under Ubuntu 12.04 the network bridge between the vbox NIC and the |
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wireless NIC works fine. This is also with the proprietary wl driver, |
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same version and all. |
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Anyone an idea what might be wrong with my setup? |
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Best, |
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Tommy |