VMware and wlan0

[Kam Leo]

On 6/8/07, John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!  I know this might be a little off topic for the list, but I am
> at wits end.
>
> I just recently changed back to fedora, I installed fedora 7 on my two
> hp dv9208nr laptops and just as with suse 10.2 I have to use the
> ndiswrapper to get the broadcomm 4311 to work.
>
> The problem is wlan0 is not allowing a windows guest on my wife
> machine to connect to the lan or wan.
>
> On suse 10.2 when I setup vmware workstation 6 and bridged to the
> wlan0 interface it worked.  On fedora it does not, I can ping the
> local host address from windows and ping windows host (when running)
> from the local host address.
>
> On this machine the local address is 192.168.1.80 and the guest
> address is 192.168.1.81 with the latter being bridged to the former.
>
> I have posted this to the vmware forums and so far I have not found a
> solution.  If it worked in suse 10.2 then I should be able to get it
> working in fedora 7, I just have run out of ideas.

Faulty, wishful thinking. Different kernels and drivers. Would be nice
if it all just worked, though.

Have you filed a bug report so that the developers are alerted to the problem?

> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
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