[NTLUG:Discuss] VMWare and Wireless Laptop

[Ed Coates]

Hi All,

I've got a bit of a problem with VMWare and my laptop.  I have a Dell 
laptop with 1.7GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a built in Gigabit card, and a 
built in Wireless card.  It currently runs WinXP for work and I have 
VMWare loaded with SuSE 9.0.  

The problem is that when I'm at home and have the VMWare machine running 
it's bridged to the wireless NIC and intermittently loses all network 
connection.  It can't ping or talk to anything on the LAN.  It'll regain 
connection for about half a minute or so, but then loses it again.  This 
happens over and over again to a point that having it on the network is 
useless.

Has anyone run up against this type of problem with VMWare before?  When 
it's plugged directly into the WAP, there's no network problems, and WinXP 
doesn't suffer the same symptoms when it's wireless.

Ed