Re: Suse Linux 5.1 under Virtualbox ( Unable to make the network card work)
"David W. Hodgins" <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Jun 2021 11:23:16 -0400
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.os.linux,alt.linux.suse,alt.os.linux.suse |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 04:26:26 -0400, Viktor Madarasz <[email protected]> wrote: > Im trying to make S.u.s.e Linux 5.1 work under Virtualbox. Why? Getting ready for 25th anniversary? > 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: Probably not impossible, not definitely not going to be easy and won't work with vb without hacking it. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux version 5.1 was release in 1997. The virtualbox guest additions have to work in concert with the version of vb running on the host. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox the very first release of vb was in 2007, a decade later. As a kernel from 1997 likely did not support dynamic device creation, you'd have to have the appropriate files in /dev, and a hacked version of the vb guest kernel modules that work with the 1997 suse linux kernel, or a hacked version of that kernel to work with the vb guest modules. Unless you have experience with kernel development, I wouldn't even consider trying to do it. Regards, Dave Hodgins -- Change [email protected] to [email protected] for email replies.