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VMware tools for Linux hosed my Fedora 11 NIC Driver!

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eyespi

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Jun 12, 2001
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Hello everyone,

I am new to Linux and have mucked around with Fedora 11 and just began playing with the command line. I have it installed as a VM on Workstation Ace 6.0 and when I tried to configure the VMware tools via BASH with the following:

vmware-config-tools.pl

...it hosed my NIC driver and I can't get on the 'net now. I want to roll back this change, so I ran:

rpm -e VMwareTools

...but I get the error that VMware Tools is not installed.

Can anyone tell me how I can roll back to where I was before I ran vmware-config-tools.pl?


Thank you,

Eyespi
 
Hi All,

Nevermind my previous post. Rebooting the system brought back my eth0. I did run ifup eth0 and kept getting the error that the device was not found, so I decided to reboot and everything came back. Very strange but I am back in business :)

Thanks!

Eyespi
 
Running vmware-config-tools.pl will compile a network driver and a few other kernel modules for your platform. It will also do a few other things which would require a reboot.

The output of the script tells all.
 
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