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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:10:18PM +0000, someone from 
baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> Some time ago I was working on getting internet access to work with the 
> QEMU version of BL 3.4.  As I recall, there 
> was some kind of patch that had to be entered for Links to be able to reach 
> outside the virtual partition to the 
> TCP/IP connection on the host PC.  I can't remember what that patch was.  I 
> think it was entered right before you 
> typed "startx" at the shell prompt.  Does anyone recall what I am talking 
> about?  Can you give me that patch or put 
> it on the BL website?  Will there be a QEMU version of BL 3.5?  Thanks in 
> advance for all your help.

I set up the qemu version of BL to be networked with the host "out of the 
box." I've never had to take any additional 
steps to get it to network with the host operating system and to use the 
host's internet connection. If you take a look 
at the file /etc/rc you should see a section that reads

-----------------------------------------------
###ACTIVATE_ETHERNET###
#ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
insmod 8390
insmod ne
udhcpc
----------------------------------------------

That section is what loads the NIC modules that work with qemu's virtual NIC, 
then issues a dhcp request, which is 
answered by qemu's virtual router. If those lines got somehow commented out, 
you need to uncomment them. But as I 
recall I added them to the qemu image and left them uncommented. Anyway, the 
way to tell if all this is working in BL 
is to, before trying to run any other commands such as you list in your 
second post, just issue the command ifconfig 
right after booting. Does it show any IP assigned to eth0? If so, you should 
be online. And if your host machine has an 
internet connection, BL should share it with no further fussing. As I recall 
the qemu virtual router assigns and 
address of 10.0.0.X to the virtual NIC in BL.

James