[NTLUG:Discuss] VMWare and Wireless Laptop

[Steve Southwell]

I had the same problem with my Dell laptop.  I never was able to figure 
it out, despite screwing around with services and such for hours.  I 
finally had to deinstall VMware, and that fixed it.  Sorry,
-Steve

Ed Coates wrote:

>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
>
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