VMware and kernel 2.6.12

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:

> Em Qua, 2005-08-03 às 11:03 -0600, kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
> escreveu:
>>[...]
>> It works fine. The only bit I wish I could make work is networking via my
>> wireless connection (eth1). If anyone knows how to do this I would be
>> grateful for any advice....
>>
>> Hope this helps...
>>
>> /Kevin
>
> Hi, Kevin. Thanks for the step-by-step, I'll try it tonight and post the
> results tomorrow. About your question, I did not see an easy way to
> configure this on the Linux version of VMware. The Windows version have
> an option to select the interface to bind to vmnet0, but the Linux
> version do not. However, maybe you can edit /etc/modprobe.conf and
> switch the aliases of the two boards, making the wireless one to be
> eth0. vmware-config.pl always bridges vmnet0 to eth0, so it might work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcelo

AFAIK, bridged networking over wireless is not supported on Linux hosts. 
(It wasn't before, and I haven't seen anything to indicate that things 
have changed.)  NAT networking works fine over wireless.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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