<posted & mailed> Gawain Lynch wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 12:57 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I just acquired a very nice if old ThinkPad running vmware (player), >> which I have heard a lot about but never tried before. >> I'm quite impressed with it, >> but have been completely unable after a day reading vmware documentation >> to get my WiFi card working. > > WiFi only works (at least it used to) with NAT. Well, I sort of assumed that the internal network on 172.16.250.0 - an IP address assigned by vmware, not me - _is_ using NAT; but where do I tell vmware I want the packets to go out via eth0 ? The vmware documentation reminds me of CUPS. I'm pretty sure both were written by aliens. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland