29 Sep 2006 Now I researched my VMware problem some more, and it has nothing to do with the link I posted in my last entry. Even though I had 2 versions of dbus installed at some point I think I actually removed the old version (a few hours) before installing VMware.
I looked at the start scripts and found that it checks for a file called /etc/vmware/not_configured, and if it exsist I refuses to start. After er manually removed it and loaded the kernel modules I actually got it all started, installed Windows XP, and rejoiced. It worked!! I could start my virtual machines.
… until my next reboot.
Now the not_configured-file was there again?
After “debugging” the vmware start-script I found that it failed when it bridged my ath0 -> vmnet0. I had also bridged my eth0 -> vmnet2.
I wasn’t able to remove the ath0 -> vmnet0 bridge with vmware-configure.pl (or I couldn’t figure out how), so I uninstalled with vmware-uninstall.pl and reinstalled, this time not bridgeing ath0. Now it works. Exactly why I doesn’t like my ath0 device seems to be the atheros drivers… but who knows. A search on the words “bridged network ath0” on VMwares forums gives a few resultsI can live with this for now.
27 Sep 2006 The bug I blogged about in a previous post seems to be known. I googled on the the problem and found a few links which seems to describe my exact problem. The good thing is that there is a work around. I’ll try this later.
Hope it gets fixed soon :)
Update: I found out why VMware wouldn’t start and made a post about it.
25 Sep 2006 Wireless
After installing Edgy Eft a couple of days ago I noticed a weird behavior of Network Manager. My wireless card was identified as a wired network card after resuming from suspend. Today I got some time to search for the bug on Launchpad and it seems it is a known bug:
Anyways I added my comments, and will be following it closely.
Update: It seems there is a fix for the bug… I’m running with it now, and so far it seems fine.
VMware
Update: I found out why VMware wouldn’t start and made a post about it.
I haven’t been able to get VMware up and running yet. I get this error when trying to start VMware:
je@rohan:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start
Password:
VMware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the
following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.
The modules have been compiled for my current kernel and I’m sure it has been compiled with the same gcc version (if that have any effect?).
My kernel:
uname -a
Linux rohan 2.6.17-9-generic #2 SMP Fri Sep 22 10:41:59 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
Installed headers:
dpkg -l |grep linux-headers-2.6.17-9-generic
ii linux-headers-2.6.17-9-generic 2.6.17-9.23
Kernel info:
cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.17-9-generic (root@rothera) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060920 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu3)) #2 SMP Fri Sep 22 10:41:59 UTC 2006 (Ubuntu 2.6.17-9.23-generic)
Compiler is gcc 4.1, which is the only one I have installed at the moment:
ls -l /usr/bin/gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-09-23 03:37 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.1
Running /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl as root (with sudo) doesn’t report any errors. The install seems to be exactly like on Dapper.
I really cant figure out why it doesn’t work. But besides these 2 things, Edgy is looking great. I feel suspend and resume is a bit faster than with Dapper. Startup and login is faster. All other things looks the same to me… and that isn’t a bad thing :)
23 Sep 2006 
I guess Storm Troopers need to take a dump sometimes also… or what he is doing :-D
23 Sep 2006 Last night (this very early morning) I installed Edgdy Eft Knot 3 on my laptop at LinuxParty 2006 in Roskilde. Tried a network upgrade first… which fucked up totally. Then I trashed my entire system partition and used the live installer…. which worked out great.
For a moment I ran the kernel: 2.6.17-8-generic with which I experienced a problem with suspend (or resume). After I resumed my laptop my screen wasn’t redrawn correctly. After upgrading to 2.6.17-9-generic I haven’t experienced it since… but I haven’t tested it enough to say it is actually gone :)
The new power manager is soo cool :-D
When I’m on battery, LCD dimmed down and Bluetooth and Wireless turned of I only use 6-7W. Really fun to tru out different stuff and watch the graph.
So far the upgrade to Edgy works like a charm… though I still need to get VM-Ware and Citrix Meta Frame installed, but I don’t suspect it to give any trouble.
