[NTLUG:Discuss] VMWare and Wireless Laptop

[Kenneth Loafman]

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.

I have a Dell laptop running XP Pro and VMware as well.

I had that, and other problems, with VMware 4.51, although not as frequent 
as you describe.  I backed off to 4.05 and everything cleared up.  I don't 
think that 4.51 is ready for prime time, if my experience and the VMware 
forums are any indication.

...Ken