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i'm trying a slackware version of linux (2.6.x kernal) and everytime i bring up mozilla firefox i get the error page and at the bottom right where the load bar is, it says Tor disabled. i'm new to linux and clueless as to what to do so any suggestions would help.

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Short diagnosis and focused steps (building on and ): the guest only has the loopback device visible, so the Slackware VM currently does not have a usable Ethernet interface up inside the guest. That can be because the VM is not presenting a virtual NIC, the guest lacks the right driver/module for the virtual NIC, or the interface is simply down and never got a DHCP lease. Follow these checks in order.

First, check the VMware VM settings on the host: make sure a Network Adapter is attached, that it is "Connected" (and "Connect at power on"), and decide NAT vs Bridged. If the adapter is missing or set to "Host-only", the guest will not get normal LAN/Internet access. Also confirm the host firewall or security software isn’t blocking VMware’s networking.

In the guest, identify hardware and driver status, and inspect kernel logs. Useful commands:

lspci -nnk | grep -i -A3 ethernet
dmesg | tail -n 50
ip addr show
lsmod | grep -i vmxnet

If lspci shows no Ethernet controller, the VM isn’t exposing one. If the controller is present but no driver/module is bound, load the right module (or install VMware tools so the vmxnet driver is available).

Bring the interface up and request an address (Slackware’s netconfig or the DHCP client you have). Example actions:

ip link set dev <iface> up
dhcpcd <iface>    # or dhclient <iface> depending on what’s installed

Installing VMware Tools (or open-vm-tools) in the guest often provides the recommended paravirtual NIC drivers for VMware and fixes missing NICs; see the open-vm-tools project for modern guidance: open-vm-tools. For reference on the ip command used above, see the ip(8) manual: ip(8) man page.

Note: the "Tor disabled" message in Firefox is usually an extension-level indicator and is separate from kernel/driver-level networking; focus first on getting the guest to see and configure its NIC.

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Member Avatar for Sturm

Can you ping a website? ( ping [url]www.google.com[/url] )

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Tor is a proxy service?

Type ifconfig in a console and tell us what it says

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when i typed in ip config it said object not found

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whoops you said if not ip...i guess that would explain it

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so when i typed in if config i got:

Link encap:local loopback
inet addr:127.x.x.1 Mask:
inet6 addr: ::1/128 scope:host
UP LOOP BACK RUNNING MTU:16436 metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collosions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0b)

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What does ifconfig eth0 display?

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Do you have an obscure NIC or are using wireless? Sounds like your card isnt detected?

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Well it could be because ifconfig on my box doesn't return all my network interfaces...

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i'm usin th onboard ethernet port, i know it works becuase i'm running xp on it too. i'm using vmware for linux

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Try installing the Vmware drivers for linux

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