[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#429322: vmware-package: interferes with network-manager
Arnout Boelens
aboelens at engin.umass.edu
Thu Jul 26 03:09:09 UTC 2007
On Sunday 01 July 2007, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> Arnout Boelens wrote:
> > When I installed the software as supplied by VMware, everything worked fine.
> > That was why I thought it was a bug related to the debian package.
>
> Did you configure the vmnet settings identically? vmware-package
> installs a typically configuration (vmnet0 bridged to eth0, vmnet1 host
> only, vmnet8 NAT) while the vmware configure script prompts you to
> enable each of these.
>
> Also, your networkmanager error message refers to eth2. vmware's
> network interfaces are not named eth%d, nor does vmware rename such
> interfaces.
It looks like you were right and it was a networkmanager bug. I updated to the
latest version of networkmanager and everything works fine now.
Arnout
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