Under your VM network settings, your connection should be bridged if you&#39;re using your actual LAN&#39;s gateway... is it? On virtualbox, the default setting is NAT.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 November 2010 11:15, david aliata <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aliatadavid@gmail.com">aliatadavid@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, lucida, &#39;lucida grande&#39;, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi steve,</font></div>

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</font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva, lucida, &#39;lucida grande&#39;, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">my NIC is AMD 79C970 and the driver module is loaded</font>
</div><div><font face="verdana, geneva, lucida, &#39;lucida grande&#39;, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></span><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Steve Muchai <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:smuchai@gmail.com" target="_blank">smuchai@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


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<div>On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:50 AM, david aliata &lt;<a href="mailto:aliatadavid@gmail.com" target="_blank">aliatadavid@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; Hi Guys,<br>
&gt; I am running CentOs 5.5 kernel version 2.6.18 on Vmware but i cant seem to<br>
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Not sure if my leads apply to the Vmware context, but anyway...<br>
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&gt; mii-tool brings back SIOCGMIIPHY on eth0 failed:operation not supported<br>
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</div>some NICs don&#39;t support mii probing, so that&#39;s not necessarily a problem.<br>
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what NIC do you have? Is the driver module loaded (lsmod)?<br>
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BR,<br>
S<br>
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