No Wireless w/ VMWare installed

[lopri]

I plugged an old Buffalo (pre-N) USB wireless adapter on a Windows 7 system (has VMWare Workstation 7 installed), and the system recognized and installed the drivers for it but it didn't give me any available network list (SSIDs). I thought adapter was to blame and didn't bother to look further. But the other day I got a new USB adapter and this time the device installed correctly but I couldn't enable it.

The adapters works fine on all my other systems without VMWare, so I am thinking it's the culprit. What is the fix?

On the system in question, I have two gigabit network adapters (one Realtek, one Intel) and two virtual network adapters (VMNet1, VMNet8).

 

[lopri]

Bump. What am I doing wrong?

 

[JackMDS]

I do not think that a Virtual computer can use Wireless Adapter as Wireless.

I.e., even if the original adapter is Wireless the VM emulates and see it as a wired NIC.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Any reason you cant enable it in the host OS and then share it with the guest? Or is this a testing type setup?

 

[lopri]

I should have been more specific: The symptom occurs on the host system, whether a VM is running or not.

My board comes equipped w/ Realtek network, and I've added a PCIe Intel gigabit card for VMs. Could it be that as well?

 

[JackMDS]

Two Network cards on the same computer can not run on the same Network at the same time.

The second card on the Host has to be configured on a different subnet (i.e. different Network) in order to work correctly.

If the second card is then used as the host to the VM computer. The VM computer would not connect to the Main network.

In other word use one card for both the Host computer and the VM if you want every thing sitting on the same Network.

 

[lopri]

What would happen if I disable the onboard NIC from the BIOS? I think I had both under the same subnet and they somehow worked. (but possibly the culprit to the 3rd one's malfunction)

Another thing is the VMNet is always running whether a VM is running or not. Could it be what's causing it, too?