[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#479093: virtualbox-ose: use of intel network driver results in "Invalid network adapter type '3'"

[Frank Mehnert]

On Friday 02 May 2008, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Package: virtualbox-ose
> Version: 1.5.6-dfsg-6
> Severity: normal
>
>
> When selecting "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM)" as network card
> inside the configuration menu it sometimes results in:
>
> ,---- [ error message of virtualbox ]
>
> | Invalid network adapter type '3'.
> |
> | Result Code:
> | 0x80004005
> | Component:
> | NetworkAdapter
> | Interface:
> | INetworkAdapter {78dfc978-ecb0-44ee-8b20-54549dd4539e}
> | Callee:
> | IMachine {31f7169f-14da-4c55-8cb6-a3665186e35e}
> | Callee RC:
> | 0x80004001
>
> `----
>
> I'm aware of the fact that the Intel e1000 network device is *not*
> shipped with virtualbox-ose. It would be great if the corresponding
> option inside the menu could be disabled or if that's not possible
> please consider tagging this bugreport as "won't fix" so other users
> don't stumble upon this issue (because *sometimes* you don't even
> get the error message at all and the network device just falls back
> to AMD PCnet).

I agree. We will fix this.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems    http://www.sun.com/
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