On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 00:31 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Fr, den 12.11.2004 schrieb shrek-m@xxxxxx um 0:26: > > > thanks, > > Thank you for this information. > > > $ rpm -qf `which vmware` > > VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848 > > $ rpm -q kernel > > kernel-2.6.9-1.667 > > > > works without the *any-any-* toolkit > > the only thing i had to do is > > # cp -rp /dev/vm* /etc/udev/devices > > as described in the release-notes I can confirm this. In fact, applying the *any-any-* toolkit caused it to break; bridged networking wouldn't start and VMware was left permanently in "not configured" state. Re-running vmware-config.pl did not fix this. > Keep care for the trainling slash when copying! > > > $ grep -3i vmware /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en > [ ... ] > > cp -rp /dev/vm* /etc/udev/devices/ Why? What difference does is make, given that directory /etc/udev/devices already exists? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
