[NTLUG:Discuss] VMWare and Wireless Laptop

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On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 12:41, 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.
While I don't know that it exactly relates and I don't know how I fixed
the issue, but I used to have a problem with my wireless setup where a
large amount of data would overwhelm the wireless card.  The connection
would reset and then I could connect again and restart my connection.  I
wasn't using VMware, but just scp'ing large files.  Like I said I don't
know what I did to fix it, but a similar issue could be happening with
you.  VMWare sends a lot of data over the network, resulting in the
connection reset.  To test try transferring via ftp or scp a file that
is 650MB+ in size.  It might not be VMware but rather your wireless
setup.

-- 
Woody

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