Bug 95520

Summary:	Request: vmware - modify vmware-config.pl to support other than eth* network device names
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jed Wilson <jed>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-343951-highlight-.html
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Description Jed Wilson 2005-06-08 18:16:19 UTC

Posted article here which addresses it: 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-343951-highlight-.html

Summary:
Change this line in vmware-config.pl [which searches output of ifconfig for data]:

/^eth\d+\s+[^:]/

to match something other than just ^eth, perhaps change to
/^*eth\d+\s+[^:]/

or similar

Reasons:  With UDEV I re-name my ethernet devices [especially on laptops] to
reflect where they are, examples might be obeth0 for on-board ethernet, obwlan0
for onboard Wireless, dseth0 for docking station ethernet, etc.

Also, as I know as of know we can't use vmware bridge to wireless on VMWare
Workstation for linux hosts, I don't think there's reason to search for devices
like I showed in the example like "obwlan0" but maybe someone has a better idea?

Also, don't know license on vmware-config.pl script so perhaps VMware wouldn't
let it be changed in an official release from Gentoo?  [IANAL just curious :-) ]


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-09 06:31:27 UTC

File this with VMWare, please.