Re: Suse Linux 5.1 under Virtualbox ( Unable to make the network card work)

Thanks Carlos

I look around those ftp sites.. maybe some did not remove everything 
below 6.x

Regards

Viktor


On 6/13/21 12:14 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 13/06/2021 10.26, Viktor Madarasz wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Im trying to make S.u.s.e Linux 5.1 work under Virtualbox.
> 
> Wow :-D
> 
> I have 5.3 "working" under Vmware Player.
> 
> This moment I don't remember what is working on it and what not. I have 
> not tried to boot it since I migrated my desktop from Intel to AMD, so 
> it might not work.
> 
> 
>> I got X Windows and Gnome2 work 800x600 with decent color depth
>>
>> The only thing I can not make it to work is the network interface card:
>>
>> - it shows up as dummy0 interface ( i set static IP for it )
>> - i tried autoload kernel modules for network card with the boot disk 
>> but none of them seem to recognize it or load correctly
>> - in virtualbox I selected PCNet-FAST III (Am79C973)
>>
>> I also tried to install Virtualbox guest addition tools under Suse 5.1 
>> but for the moment it complains for missing bzip2 ( i tried a few 
>> versions 1.0 , 1.2, etc.  but they either give a lot of dependency 
>> requirements ( packages i again do not have on the install iso like 
>> bzip2-libs libc.so.6 libbz2.s0.1 rpmlib or simply says Only Packages 
>> with major numbers < = 3 are supported by this version of RPM
>>
>> I can not seem to find manuals or admin docs for this version of suse 
>> linux 5.1 either and packages are hard-er to find as well Vs what I 
>> thought.
> 
> I don't have the books (paper) because that version I got from a 
> magazine (two CDs). The next one I purchased and I have the paper books.
> 
> There are some servers out there (gwdg?) that have the old versions on ftp.
>