[AccessD] VMWare vm NIC no longer works

LOL.  That would be funny if the VM wasn't useless without the virtual 
NIC.  In fact I did remove the virtual NIC, and I rolled back to last 
week.  Neither action helped.

Sigh.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com



John Bartow wrote:
> Remove the virtual NIC and reseat it. The virtual contacts may have formed a
> slight corrosion preventing good contact.
>
> ;o)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W Colby
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:20 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] VMWare vm NIC no longer works
>
> I have a VM that I have been using for months.  I turned it on this 
> morning and it can't see the network, can't browse the internet.  The 
> windows firewall was turned back on.  It had downloaded a windows update 
> and rebooted just before the issue started, though I had not tried to 
> use the VM before rebooting, IOW I powered on, it downloaded the 
> updates, rebooted and here we are.
>
> The NIC was complaining that it was being issued an IP address that was 
> already in use.  However I then manually set the address to a known free 
> address, and while it shows packets being sent / received, it still will 
> not allow firefox to browse, nor the virus detector to download updates.
>
> Other than the object rollback, any ideas?
>
> I so hate this stuff.  It often feels like I spend more time keeping my 
> systems working that using them to get work done.
>
>