Hardware :: Ubuntu Server 8.04.4 In A VM - Networking / Something About Not Being Able To Find Pcnet32?

I'll be as detailed as possible about how I got to this point so that anyone who wants to can follow along at home.

I've got an ESXi 3.5u3 Server on which I've built a Virtual Machine and installed Ubuntu Server 8.04.4.

During the installation it was unable to detect the virtual NIC so I chose "Do Not Setup Networking" thinking it would be easy to just configure the NIC later after the install of VMWare Tools.

Once installed, I did the following to get VMWare Tools installed:

# cd /mnt
# sudo mkdir cdrom
# sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
(The CD in the virtual drive was the Ubuntu Install CD)
# sudo apt-cdrom add
# sudo apt-get install linux-kernel-headers
# sudo apt-get install build-essential
# sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.24-26-server
(At this point I told ESXi to "Install VMWare Tools" which puts a CD in the virtual CD-Rom containing the VMTools)
# sudo umount /dev/cdrom
# sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# cd /tmp
# sudo tar zxf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-3.5.0-123629.tar.gz
# cd vmware-tools-distrib
# sudo ./vmware-install.pl

At this point I accepted all the default values by pressing enter at each question. I didn't get any errors, and got a message saying something along the lines of "installed for this kernel perfectly". It also told me that to get networking going I should do the following, which I did:

# sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop
# sudo rmmod pcnet32
# sudo rmmod vmxnet
# sudo depmod -a
# sudo modprobe vmxnet
# sudo /etc/init.d/networking start

The first time I did that it said something about not being able to find pcnet32. The second time it didn't complain.

At this point I was hoping I'd have network, but when I run ifconfig it just shows the loopback adapter and nothing else.

So I tried
# sudo ifup eth0
which says "Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0".
I found something that said I should edit /etc/network/interfaces , so I did, and I added the following lines
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
saved the file and tried again:
#sudo ifup eth0

at which point it just sits there looking for the DHCP server (which we do have running) and never finds it.

I'm stuck. I *think* the drivers are in there somewhere since the VMWare Tools install seemed to work, I just don't know how to tell it to take those drivers, attach them to eth0, and start the damn thing!