Requirements Vmware Player Free on CENTOS 7, missing network card (nic) and vmware tools not required

Source:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/9667/path-to-kernel-header/

After installing manually the VMWare player Free for Linux for free personal use
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/12_0

On X-Windows mode you got the two next error messages when for the first time you open VMWare Player Icon

"Path to gcc"
"path to kernel-header"

You must update the server, and install the next packages

yum update
yum install gcc
yum install kernel-headers
yum install kernel-devel
reboot

Open VMWare Player again and voila

You don't need to install VMWare tools.  There are included and updated with OS

If you didn't see you NIC (Network Interface Card o Network Card) after Copying, Moving or Cloning like VMWare Converter.

You can add a new nic to the virtual machine, assign Bridged NAT or Host Only and remove the original created.  You need to copy the old ip address to the new NIC added


Greetings
 B.

Intel 82579V Gigabit Ethernet Controller on several desktop boards with Windows 2008 R2 x64 won't work

Spanish keywords: Intel 82579V Gigabit Ethernet Controller incluido en varias tarjetas madre con Windows 2008 R2 x64 no trabajan

Fuente: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/4f6988c1-645a-438f-ab01-f67b9c7454ee/lan-driver-for-windows-server-2008-r2-on-intel-dh77eb-motherboard

As stated on DH77EB Intel Desktop Board
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-dh77eb.html

According to previous link the Chipset for Gigabit LAN is an Intel 82579V Gigabit Ethernet Controller

You could download the generic driver on Intel page http://www.intel.com/support/ethernetcomponents/controllers/82579/sb/CS-032239.htm

 but you get: "Intel Adapter not found on this system error message"

So you need to download de generic driver according to your Windows OS version and Release or use your Mainboard OEM CD and follow the next procedure

for Windows 2008 R2 x64
Step 1:
- Copy the contents of DVD to a folder on your desktop
- Browse to \Software\Drivers\LAN\PRO1000\Winx64\NDIS62\
- Open with notepad the next file e1c62x64.inf

Step 2:
Go to the section [ControlFlags]

Change
 ExcludeFromSelect = \
    PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1502,\
    PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1503
 with

ExcludeFromSelect =

Step 3:
copy the next line on bottom of the entries in [Intel.NTamd64.6.1]

%E1503NC.DeviceDesc%            = E1503.6.1.1,       PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1503


Step 4:
Save the inf file
Go to Computer Management or Device Management
Update driver pointing to the \Software\Drivers\LAN\PRO1000\Winx64\NDIS62\ folder

Step 5:
Get DHCP or IP Address Settings




 

ARP reset on RedHAT

http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/2004-July/022560.html

for i in `awk -F ' ' '{ if ( $1 ~ /[0-9{1,3}].[0-9{1,3}].[0-9{1,3}].[0-9{1,3}]/ ) print $1 }' /proc/net/arp` ; do arp -d $i ; done


[wplug] Clearing arp cache

Poyner, Brandon bpoyner at ccac.edu
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It's not that the Linux arp command couldn't clear all the arp cache entries, they just don't give you that option (i.e.: you could modify the source code and make it happen easily enough). I guess they figure since the arp cache times out after some 3 minutes and arp broadcasts are a continual process it's not worth the effort. Something like this should work, though it's an ugly hack.

for i in `awk -F ' ' '{ if ( $1 ~ /[0-9{1,3}].[0-9{1,3}].[0-9{1,3}].[0-9{1,3}]/ ) print $1 }' /proc/net/arp` ; do arp -d $i ; done

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086