On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:09:36PM -0500, vamythguy wrote: > > I suspected from the beginning that I was hunting a white whale. I > didn't really want to waste forum resources, but thought maybe someone > had a quick answer. I think I'll explore a more automated approach to > natively supporting my wireless card, under sepaerate cover. Thanks > for your input. > I run VMware as you are thinking of doing, that is a Fedora (7 in my case) host with a Windows XP guest. As far as I understand it the host provides the guest with specific types of virtual NICs, what the XP guest sees when it's installed is a computer with specific (well supported) NICs, sound cards, etc. I don't think your Windows XP guest will get anywhere near the wireless hardware so VMWare may not help on that front. -- Chris Green