Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:04:25 -0400
Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I am having a hard time getting wicd to work on gentoo guest. Thought
> that it was a simple matter of emerge and run wicd-client -n to
> configure. I have compiled the correct ethernet driver in the kernel
> (at least I think so).

What driver is that?

> Does anyone have some experience with this or
> could point me to diagnostic approaches?

What have you already tried (so we don't waste our time trying the same
thing)

> The output of ifconfig -a
> follows below.

dmesg? /var/log/messages?

> Don't know why eth1 and not eth0 is there.

udev persistent rules strike again

> The HWaddr
> is correctly obtained from the vbox.

Your information supplied is not enough to really help you solve this
problem.


>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Valmor
>
> ifconfig -a
>
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:96:75:25
>            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)
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  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:0
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
> sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
>            NOARP  MTU:1480  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:0
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
>



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Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com