vmware - lost in a fog of ambiguity

[Timothy Murphy]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>> WiFi only works (at least it used to) with NAT.
> 
> Well, I sort of assumed that the internal network on 172.16.250.0 -
> an IP address assigned by vmware, not me - _is_ using NAT;
> but where do I tell vmware I want the packets to go out via eth0 ?

I found in the end all I needed to do was give the following commands
(I should confess at this point that the machine -
which is a ThinkPad T20 I just acquired -
is running slax , probably because it only has a 6GB disk)

(1) sudo ifconfig eth0 up
(2) sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.3.11

(the address of my home WiFi LAN is 192.168.3.0).

After (1) eth0 was listed by ifconfig ,
but had an ipv6 address.

Thanks for all the help.


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