Freebsd 7 RC1 NAT network issue

[remoh]

host system is windows xp pro with sp2.
FreeBSD installed successfully, but cannot get network setting via dhcp at booting, invoking command "dhclient pcn0" manually did no help.

I try to configure the pcn0 manually:
ip: 10.0.2.33/24
default gateway: 10.0.2.2

This doesn't work too.

As a try, i installed a debian for comparison.
It worked flawlessly, either via dhcp or configuring manually.

[pedlo]

>>I try to configure the pcn0 manually:

The manual configuration should be this:

Ip address 10.0.2.15
default gateway 10.0.2.2
dns 10.0.2.3

pedlo

[Frank Mehnert]

FreeBSD seems to have problems with our network controller emulation. Use

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VBoxManage modifyvm VM_NAME -nictype1 Am79C970A


and try again.

[remoh]

>>I try to configure the pcn0 manually:

The manual configuration should be this:

Ip address 10.0.2.15
default gateway 10.0.2.2
dns 10.0.2.3

pedlo

It doesn't work.

Thanks for your reply.

[remoh]

FreeBSD seems to have problems with our network controller emulation. Use

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VBoxManage modifyvm VM_NAME -nictype1 Am79C970A


and try again.

It runs fine now. Thank you.

[AB-stromer]

FreeBSD seems to have problems with our network controller emulation. Use

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VBoxManage modifyvm VM_NAME -nictype1 Am79C970A


and try again.

Thanks for hint, works fine now here too! With DHCP.

FreeBSD (i386) 7 RC1
in a VM on VirtualBox 1.5.4
on Debian 4.0 r3 AMD64
on an AMD64 X2

rgds

[ViperChief]

I'm trying to get FreeBSD 7 to work, but I'm having the net issue to. However

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VBoxManage modifyvm VM_NAME -nictype1 Am79C970A


Isn't working. I've been fighting with this and Googling it since Saturday. Any other ideas?

[javicoev]

how I can run the command line for works in Windows??

VBoxManage modifyvm VM_NAME -nictype1 Am79C970A

system host is Vista, and the net card is "PCNet-PCI II", i cant get the net working,

thank you

[huubs]

To get FreeBSD7.0 properly working it is important to select the correct netwerkadapter (Am79C970A) BEFORE you install the OS. The nic is then le0.
This works fine here, no need to either run modifyvm or ifconfig.

However, the same procedure doesNOT work with FreeBSD-7.1 . I can startup 7.1 in 'safe mode', or with nic deactivated. But with nic activated the normal startup process crashes after the statement about point to point kickstart.

The host system is linux.

[jrv]

I still get the sigreturn / eflags problem.

host Mac OSX client FreeBSD 8.0-200812-i386 snapshot

[zero1eye]

I got it working by following the above, but I also set it to bridged and let my NAT router assign the IP via DHCP rather than VirtualBox's. I'm using Windows 7 RC1 as the host machine.

It is working awesome now. This is great because we use FreeBSD at work, and this gives us some development space without the cost of some new expensive servers.

It is worth noting I had to change the interface name from em0 to le0 in the rc.conf file before it all came together. This may seem like common sense, but I could see why people might miss this.

--Sprawl