Posted: 3. Nov 2007, 01:49
well, everything is good now. Here is the (semi-humorous) of how:
I called the useless guy from the ISP in. I have discovered so much about the ISP that it is,,,,, well this is China (TIC) as we say. So, he did his usual nothing on my daughter's box. I asked him to help me with this install of their pppoe program. he shyed like a beat horse. Well, he knew I had some kinky things going on here, you know, Linux. Seeing the virtual windows on the linux desk didn't help, he was afraid to touch the keyboard (I'm not kidding about this, he didn't even want to look!). I finally calmed him enough to get him to delete the instance of the pppoe program that they had running and let me remove it from the virtual machine ("but you won't have internet! I don't have internet now. But you do have internet now, it says that it connected. But it doesn't connect and windows is too stupid to figure it out so let's delete and reinstall. But you'll lose your internet. I can't lose something I don't have. let's remove it and then we'll put it back. But you'll lose your internet---- this went on for 5 minutes, 5 precious minutes of my life)
I got him to remove it (the directions and controls are all in Chinese and I didn't have language stuff installed) so then I reinstalled the script which was recognized then by the VM and the bridge and everythign went swimmingly. thus I am writing to you on that box in my virtual windows.
so, there was no worry with 1.5.2, it did require a reinstall of the guest additions as well as the PPPoE script from my flash drive.
So to make this basically a how-to for others from China:
Follow the manual to establish a bridge and a network using a Host network insteadl of the default NAT. (by the way the manual is excellent on this, clear and precise instructions) Install the script that is available freely from people who have the connection. Bingo. I think doing Ingo's recommended filter change (of just the bridge filter) might also be necessary, i have done it and didn't undo it to see if that caused problems.
I'm doing this partly because I have run into others here in China who have a similar problem and I can link them to this post and maybe to VB in general because it really works well.
So.... still I want the final solution, to be able to Linux online (updates and upgrades and general safe-surfing and all that) and just use a transparent VB as my (fill in correct word here). so, I will go back up this set of messages to where Ingo mentioned some ideas about this above.
Ingo: have you had any further ideas about how to accomplish this?
I called the useless guy from the ISP in. I have discovered so much about the ISP that it is,,,,, well this is China (TIC) as we say. So, he did his usual nothing on my daughter's box. I asked him to help me with this install of their pppoe program. he shyed like a beat horse. Well, he knew I had some kinky things going on here, you know, Linux. Seeing the virtual windows on the linux desk didn't help, he was afraid to touch the keyboard (I'm not kidding about this, he didn't even want to look!). I finally calmed him enough to get him to delete the instance of the pppoe program that they had running and let me remove it from the virtual machine ("but you won't have internet! I don't have internet now. But you do have internet now, it says that it connected. But it doesn't connect and windows is too stupid to figure it out so let's delete and reinstall. But you'll lose your internet. I can't lose something I don't have. let's remove it and then we'll put it back. But you'll lose your internet---- this went on for 5 minutes, 5 precious minutes of my life)
I got him to remove it (the directions and controls are all in Chinese and I didn't have language stuff installed) so then I reinstalled the script which was recognized then by the VM and the bridge and everythign went swimmingly. thus I am writing to you on that box in my virtual windows.
so, there was no worry with 1.5.2, it did require a reinstall of the guest additions as well as the PPPoE script from my flash drive.
So to make this basically a how-to for others from China:
Follow the manual to establish a bridge and a network using a Host network insteadl of the default NAT. (by the way the manual is excellent on this, clear and precise instructions) Install the script that is available freely from people who have the connection. Bingo. I think doing Ingo's recommended filter change (of just the bridge filter) might also be necessary, i have done it and didn't undo it to see if that caused problems.
I'm doing this partly because I have run into others here in China who have a similar problem and I can link them to this post and maybe to VB in general because it really works well.
So.... still I want the final solution, to be able to Linux online (updates and upgrades and general safe-surfing and all that) and just use a transparent VB as my (fill in correct word here). so, I will go back up this set of messages to where Ingo mentioned some ideas about this above.
Ingo: have you had any further ideas about how to accomplish this?