[NTLUG:Discuss] VMWare and Wireless Laptop

[travis.farral@nokia.com]

I run Vmware on my IBM laptop with wireless and don't seem to have any
issues with the networking.  Here are my details:

IBM Thinkpad T40
Host OS:  Windows XP SP2
Virtual OS:  Gentoo Linux 2004.0

I use bridged networking as well.

It must be something specific with the Dell hardware I would imagine.
Are there are posts about it Google Groups?

-Travis 

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On
Behalf Of ext Steve Southwell
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 12:42 PM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] VMWare and Wireless Laptop

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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