No OSX networking after crash, but bridged VM OK???!

Question

I havent investigated much, few hrs, but at a loss of what to try. Not coming up w anything from searches, thought I'd ask...
Went over basics, but I no networking wiz. I cant get networking working on ethernet nor wifi, both worked find before macbook pro siezed w black screen, multi-lingual message.
I've removed my firewall and set manual static ip, same as had worked in past. no luck. no ping to gateway.
Obviously rebooted, power cord unplugged, everything i own/have access to upstream.
I feared my network adapter fried. But it MUST be a driver of cfg since a vmware fusion 4 instance of ubuntu using bridged networking and it uses dhcp works fine..
differences i see:
* eth0 dhcp not returning correct. or at least after dhcp release,i get a 169.254.58.30 and i've foudn online a 169.254.*.* is a dhcp failure
nothing in logs when i do a release. no popup error.
----- tests:
ping gateway_ip  -> request timeout
the diagnostic wiz came up short..

Answer 1

Please, any help! No resolution yet.
I have done a few time-machine full system restores and it works fine until I restart or shutdown and later startup...
Networking still works fine in fusion 4 vms, both ubunto and winxp vms.
Networking on host osx laptop says ethernet or airport has the self-assigned ip address of 169.254.whatever and will not be able to connect to the internet. I have this message RIGHT now on my airport, but it still is connected to a pw protected wifi network. my xp vm that i'm typing this in is bridged to the airport. winxp did not ask any wifi pw, it's internet just 'works'...
only thing i can find wrong is that /etc/resolv.conf is a broken symlink. i've tried putting a valid nameserver in the file but no luck.
what can I check??? i dont want to reinstall from scratch. I dont get how networking can be broken. a reboot and redhcp should fix most conf files. That leaves system files trashed??
sh-3.2# ifconfig
lo0: flags=8149<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
          inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
          inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
          inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
          ether 58:b0:35:f9:0d:10
          media: autoselect (none)
          status: inactive
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
          lladdr d8:30:62:ff:fe:f5:b1:ce
          media: autoselect <full-duplex>
          status: inactive
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
          ether 58:b0:35:80:7a:a8
          inet6 fe80::5ab0:35ff:fe80:7aa8%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
          inet 169.254.251.228 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
          media: autoselect
          status: active
vmnet1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
          ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01
          inet 172.16.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.10.255
vmnet8: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
          ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08
          inet 172.16.93.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.93.255
sh-3.2# cat /etc/resolv.conf
cat: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory
sh-3.2# cat /etc/hosts
# Host Database
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
127.0.0.1          localhost
255.255.255.255          broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0          localhost
#74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com
sh-3.2# cat /etc/resolv.conf
cat: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory
sh-3.2# ls -la /etc/resolv.conf
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20 Apr 17  2010 /etc/resolv.conf -> /var/run/resolv.conf
sh-3.2# ls /var/run/resolv.conf
ls: /var/run/resolv.conf: No such file or directory
sh-3.2# echo "nameserver 65.106.1.196" > /var/run/resolv.conf
sh-3.2# host yahoo.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached