ubuntu 7.04 vmware pcmcia

[dfnkt]

Any chance that I might be able to get a lucent agere PC24E-H-FC pcmcia wireless card (Orinoco) FCC ID: IMR WLPCE24H working on ubuntu 7.04/7.10 inside of vmware? I believe I've gotten all the libraries I need, however I think i'm going to be stumped by it running inside of VMWARE.

I also have openbsd 4.2 on another vm, any better chance of getting things running there?

 

[Nothinman]

AFAIK Besides USB stuff VMWare doesn't have the ability to present a specific piece of hardware directly to a guest.

 

[sciencewhiz]

Why do you want it to run in vmware? If it works on the host OS, vmware should do the necessary "magic" so that the guest OS sees it as a generic Ethernet connection.

 

[dfnkt]

I need to run it inside vmware because I have one laptop and its a work laptop on vista , so I cant exactly go erasing the disk or re-partitioning it. I have ubuntu on a desktop downstairs but it isn't portable.

 

[Nothinman]

There's no need to repartition or anything, just enable the network in VMWare and install the AMD PCNet32 NIC in the guest that VMWare presents.