From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: This bug is now known since ages as bug #100527, that's why I create a new bug report for FC2 Test1. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to use DHCP when running FC2 Test1 in VMware 2. 3. Additional info:
Did you try this on previous versions of RHL or Fedora? They all seem to suffer from the same problem (actualy i think the problem is with VMware which cannot pass link state on to the virtual device) Anyway, All I have ever had to do to get around this was edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or whatever the device is called) and add the following at the bottom of that file on a line of its own! ip link set $DEVICE up
I've tried this on RHL9, FC1 and FC2 Test1. Read comment #5 on big #100527.
interesting, never looked at it THAT close - the above suggested solution works okay for me... Although, if there's a bug in the kernel - it should really be fixed!
this is a duplicate og bug #100527 - i can't close the bug as a duplicate
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100527 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.