On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:30:28AM -0500, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
Can anyone offer any advice about how to get networking working, as that would make getting everything else working easier.
Well, I've neither tried Ubuntu under VMware, nor had to build network drivers, but when I've needed to build other kernel modules under Ubuntu, I've used apt-get to install what I've needed. It should look after all the dependencies for you and get you out of deb package hell.
And right now, you're probably thinking "well, duh, how can I use apt-get if I don't have a network driver?" A quick Google search shows that others have been in the same boat (not too surprising), and the advice is usually to get apt-get or aptitude to install from an Ubuntu CD. So, burn yourself an Ubuntu CD if you don't have one already (you may need the full Ubuntu CD, as the remix may not have all the packages you need), and read a couple of these:
Two other notes:
1) If you're going to download a Ubuntu image, download the "alternate" cd's, not the bootable desktop ones, as these are properly set up to be used as a deb-cd repository. 2) Keep in mind that when rebuilding a package, it's easy to take care of all the build deps in one command:
apt-get build-dep <package-name>
Scott