Network driver issues

[bassmannate]

Hello. I have Player installed on Ubuntu Linux. I am running XP as the guest OS. Now, I got everything running (even have vmware-tools installed) and for some reason XP is not recognizing the drivers for either network card on my virtual machine. It sees the interfaces but it has the question mark by it like it doesn't have the drivers for them. Any ideas?

[KevinG]

That's odd, since the Windows XP has the device driver for the default AMD PCnet32 II card and the VMware Tools would have updated the virtual network card to an VMware Accelerated AMD virtual network adapter

Post the .vmx file from the virtual machine

[Brockoli]

I had the exact same problem. This is what I did to fix it.

1. Exit vmware

2. Edit your .vmx and go to network section. I had the intel 1000 set as my virtualDev, but I changed it to vmxnet and saved. Here is my network section...

\----

---

\# First network interface card

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet"

ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

\----

---

I also changed from "nat" to "bridged" under connectionType

3. Run vmware and launch your windowsxp. Should just work, but check your device manager to see if the network card is updated and working.

Hope this helps.

Rob W.