Ethan,

By any chance do you have a file named "/etc/vmware/not_configured"? If so, remove it.

Also, just to be sure, what do you see in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc, e.g.,

$ ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc

total 376

-rw-rr 1 root root 36509 2008-12-07 01:07 vmblock.ko

-rw-rr 1 root root 95745 2008-12-07 01:07 vmci.ko

-rw-rr 1 root root 118128 2008-12-07 01:07 vmmon.ko

-rw-rr 1 root root 79897 2008-12-07 01:07 vmnet.ko

-rw-rr 1 root root 34834 2008-12-07 01:07 vsock.ko