No network available under VirtualBox

dimkr / rlsd

A lightweight, retro Linux-libre distro

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No network available under VirtualBox #37

Closed dbohdan closed 10 years ago

dbohdan commented 10 years ago

ifconfig's output doesn't show eth0, only wlan0 and lo. The VirtualBox version is 4.3.14 running on a Linux host (kernel 3.15.10-200.fc20.x86_64).

live discs

This applies to either of the two chipsets and all of the virtual network cards that I have tried:

AMD PCNet PCI II (Am79C970A)
AMD PCNet FAST III (Am79C973)
Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM)

josefnpat commented 10 years ago

I am having the same issue for 4.2.16_Ubuntu

dimkr commented 10 years ago

Have you tried "ifconfig eth0 up"?

dbohdan commented 10 years ago

@dimkr Thanks for the suggestion. This is a bit awkward: I blindly assumed your network startup script tries to bring up both wlan0 and eth0. Now that I've read /etc/init.d/network I see that is not the case.

Running

ifconfig eth0 up
dhcpcd eth0

does work.

That said, unless you avoid bringing up eth0 automatically for a design reason I think this should be in the network script. I made a pull request for this at https://github.com/dimkr/dslr/pull/39.

josefnpat commented 10 years ago

:+1: Derp, should have thought of that. This ticket ought to stay open until #39 or a different patch that fixes this issue is merged.