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Should this line have the "#" (comment marker) in it?    -->     "#ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1"

I looked at the /etc/rc and it did look like what you say.  However, everything I try to do with LINKS comes back with the message "Error  Host Not Found".  I have not tried Telnet or FTP.

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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 o
> f 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 
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