Hi, im using windows xp through vmware server on a slackware 11.0 pc. I cant get the network cards to work in vmware server. I have a wireless card and an ethernet card, both pci. Both cards are "recognized" meaning that they are installed (in xp through vmware) with the same driver on both cards, the driver is "vmware accelerated AMD pcnet adapter". I cant figure out how to get them to work.
Under linux they both work fine, but dont know how to set them up in vmware.Under linux the wireless card is connected to a home network, and the wired ethernet is connected to another pc through crossover cable. Im mainly interested in the wireless card, dont really need the ethernet but i´d be cool to get it to work too.

What im trying to do is to get the network card to work exactly as in the host os ,(slackware), in other words, to connect to my wireless home network, if it is even possible.

I dont really understand wether i should set them up as bridged or nat or any other type of connection. From what i´ve read, i would think i need to set them up as bridged. I couldnt find the answer anywhere, i know somebody must have had this same problem before, if someone knows how to do it i would greatly appreciate it
vmware tools are installed in xp.
If you need more info please let me know and i´ll post it
thanks
nico

The network card with VMWare is a virtual network interface, get used to this fact. This virtual "accelerated AMD pcnet adapter" is the only network device you need. If Linux is using the wireless interface then so is VMware as long as vmnet8 is configured to the wireless device for example.

On my laptop I have the vmware device bridged to my wireless card. XP now gets its IP via DHCP from the router via the brideged device.
Run vmware-config.pl and check the network settings. Bridge the wireless card. It works for me.

This means that XP has a different IP from your host os??? when I bridge the physical wireless network card to a virtual interface card, the router of my home network would treat them as two different cards???

I bridged the network cards:
I have vmnet0 bridged with wlan0
and vmnet2 bridged with eth0

the range of possible ips in my wireless home network go from 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.150, should I assign an ip through windows xp or let it obtain the ip automatically through the routers dhcp??? I tried both but none of them worked, i probably did something wrong in the windows configuration

also since they both have the same name through xp i cant tell which is which so i tried changing the settings in both cards and still nothing

Lenard: "If Linux is using the wireless interface then so is VMwareas long as vmnet8 is configured to the wireless device for example" by configured you mean bridged??; i understood the part that you in your virtual machine you have a virtual network card, i just thought maybe i should install the same drivers of the real phisical card to that virtual network card, but apparently thats not how it works

My virtual Xp gets a different IP address to the host from the router, on the same subnet so its easy to cofigure samba so that you can share between virtual XP and the linux host.

Bridge the virtual interface to wlan only. Unless you want another virtual interface to access another subnet/range?? Make sure vmware tools is installed in windows aswell. I have eth1(wireless adapter) brideged to the virtual interface and eth0(wired) disabled on boot as I do not need that interface. It works for me.

On my laptop, vmnet0 is configured to the wireless interface (wlan0). The vmware is configured(by the vmware-config.pl script) to use the vmnet8 network device, this is a private NAT service.

No need to install drivers that are not present on the virtual system.