Backtrack 5 R3 on Virtualbox does not get ip-address (bridged network)

[Malista]

Hi,

I have tried searching for a solution for days with no result. I am running virtualbox with backtrack on win7 host. A couple of days ago i had everything working and all was fine, until i tried bridging to an ethernet adapter. Now when i bridge to my wireless adapter, there is no inet address on guests eth0 (ethernet does not work either). I have also disabled the firewall. Sorry about the confusing explanation, I have included outputs to ipconfig+ifconfig and some screenshots. Thank you for your help.

ipconfig on win7:

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : wifi
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::e006:1d0d:ed5f:3917%12
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.8.99
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::49bd:d617:c1e4:cc35%12
192.168.8.1

ifconfig on BackTrack:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:a8:bd:8f
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fea8:bd8f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX Packets:1614 errors:0 dropped:5 overruns:0 frame:0
TX Packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:120827 (120.8 KB) TX bytes:6218 (6.2KB)

[netfortius]

Hi,

I have tried searching for a solution for days with no result. I am running virtualbox with backtrack on win7 host. A couple of days ago i had everything working and all was fine, until i tried bridging to an ethernet adapter. Now when i bridge to my wireless adapter, there is no inet address on guests eth0 (ethernet does not work either). I have also disabled the firewall. Sorry about the confusing explanation, I have included outputs to ipconfig+ifconfig and some screenshots. Thank you for your help.

I'd be interested in finding out if anybody replied - maybe offline?!? Same problem now on my new macbookpro osx mountain lion, oracle virtualbox & BT-R3 - cannot get an IP via DHCP, be is in bridged or NAT mode. All other VMs (Security Onion, a std Ubuntu and some windows ones) work just fine.