Installation

Hi,

I have converted the image (generic-pc-1.3b16-vm.zip) to my ESX 3.5 server. But when i boot it reports me that there are 2 nic cards. But setup doesn't seem to work.

In vmware, the ethernet cards are connected.

In the main screen it tells me:
LAN -> em0
WAN -> em1

Then setup:

Valid interfaces are:
lnc0 (mac adr) PCNET/PCI ethernet adapter
lnc1 (mac adr) PCNET/PCI ethernet adapter

then automatic detection.

then it tells me: "No link-up detected"


In the vSwitch sections they are connected.....

Looks like your ESX machine somehow ignored the virtualDev setting for the two virtual NICs (it should be "e1000", but the fact that m0n0wall shows lncX interfaces tells me that it somehow fell back to "flexible"). The .vmx that is distributed in generic-pc-1.3b16-vm.zip contains the correct lines, but maybe you need to edit the .vmx on your VMware host and ensure they're still in there:

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000"

Alternatively, you can re-assign network interfaces in m0n0wall to use lnc0 as LAN and lnc1 as WAN (automatic detection only works on physical machines), but these don't give anywhere near as much performance as the e1000 emulation (with em0/em1).

Well i used vmconverter to convert it, so it is visible in ESX. And Yes it was converted to Flexible.......

I will try it later this day. Thanks.

Ok, well it was simpel.

Change the OS to a 64bit os. (ubuntu 64) and then you can select an ethernet e1000 card. Otherwise it can't be selected.

Now it works. Thanks.

Maybe something for a README.TXT : "warning: ......"