VMWare and Gentoo

[shiver]

Software in use:

VMWare Server Beta 2

Gentoo (virtual)

Windows XP SP2 (host machine)

Basically what I have is the latest minimal Gentoo CD inserted so that when the VMWare virtual server starts, it boots off the CD.

All appears fine, no errors reported at all.
I get to the prompt and I can even ping out to www.google.com and
"telnet google.com 80" works great.

However, when I open anything else, eg: irssi, it refuses to connect to the outside world.

I tested this in the same way using an Ubuntu Live CD 6.06 (Dapper) and got similar results.
It booted into X and even though I could ping out in the terminal, there was no access with Firefox or Gaim.

I have VMWare set in bridged mode.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[shiver]

i changed VMWare to NAT instead of Bridged but I had to manually run dhcpcd once everything has booted.

For some reason when it is run on startup, it fails? Weird.

Anyway, all is working now.