Problems with thin clients (virtual box)

[danbar]

Everything was working fine with my two thin clients till I installed the hplip 2.8.12 (driver for linux for HP printers).

The error command is: failed to add interface to tap0 to the bridge.

I'm pasting the result of two commands as ROOT.

ifconfig -a
br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:66:3c:71:0a
inet addr:192.168.2.101 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::219:66ff:fe3c:710a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2646 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2319067 (2.3 MB) TX bytes:419462 (419.4 KB)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:66:3c:71:0a
inet addr:192.168.2.101 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::219:66ff:fe3c:710a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3279 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2720 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2369176 (2.3 MB) TX bytes:431531 (431.5 KB)
Interrupt:22 Base address:0xb800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6214 (6.2 KB) TX bytes:6214 (6.2 KB)

pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 16:74:2f:f2:b2:80
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

tap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ce:33:f8:8a:40:6f
inet6 addr: fe80::cc33:f8ff:fe8a:406f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:251 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

tap1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c6:6a:6d:e1:f7:6a
inet6 addr: fe80::c46a:6dff:fee1:f76a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:248 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
br0 8000.0019663c710a no eth0
tap0
tap1
pan0 8000.000000000000 no