[SOLVED] cant see my wifi device in fedora14/VMware please help

maher abdoh · 04-21-2012, 02:52 AM

my laptop is lenovo thinkpad edge 14
i installed fedora14 on vmware
but there is no wirless device (wifi) shown at all
no in icons
no in iwconfig cmd
no in network-scripts
no in network-manager icon ( only wired shown )

my original OS is windows 7 and the card works good

i search for a driver installation on lenovo site ,, all drivers for windows there nothing for linux

im beginner at linux area please help me
what should i do

yooy · 04-21-2012, 03:34 AM

You should tell us what is your cards model. You can get that by issuing "lspci" command in terminal.

4 ways to get wifi working on linux

TobiSGD · 04-21-2012, 07:30 AM

VMware is a virtualization software. That means it is emulating a complete virtual PC, included (wired) network hardware. The guest OS will not see your physical hardware in your virtual PC (except the CPU) and it don't need to do that. Your network connection should work without seeing the wireless device.

John VV · 04-21-2012, 02:34 PM

Fedora 14 is also dead and unsupported it is past it's END OF LIFE
if you are going to use fedora then please STAY current
install fedora 16
then in about 1 month fedora 17 when it comes out.

maher abdoh · 04-22-2012, 04:30 PM

ok finally I SOLVED it
my VMware dont have wireless device at all ,,, it see all of links as (wired) ethernet .

I think alot of people have the same problem, so here is the way i solved it

just add a new ifcfg-wlan0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network_scripts/ and then configure it manually ,, the important thing is to put the DEVICE=eth0 (eth0 must be bridge) ,, to do it >>>

u have make new network device ( in VMWARE not in fedora ) and you have to put it custom->VMnet0 or bridge

TobiSGD · 04-22-2012, 05:05 PM

Nice that you posted back your solution. Please mark this thread as solved using the thread tools.

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maher abdoh · 04-22-2012, 05:35 PM

ok ,, sorry ,, I am new here ,

i will edit my SOLVE ,