Even though the tools are different in 8.0.4 vmxnet still does not build:
Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only' make -C /lib/modules/3.2.0-25-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \ MODULEBUILDDIR= modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-25-generic' CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.o /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c: In function ‘vmxnet_probe_device’: /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:1008:7: error: unknown field ‘ndo_set_multicast_list’ specified in initializer /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:1008:7: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:1008:7: warning: (near initialization for ‘vmxnet_netdev_ops.ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid’) [enabled by default] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c: In function ‘vmxnet_map_pkt’: /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:2085:32: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of ‘pci_map_page’ include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h:43:1: note: expected ‘struct page *’ but argument is of type ‘struct <anonymous>’ /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:2104:26: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of ‘pci_map_page’ include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h:43:1: note: expected ‘struct page *’ but argument is of type ‘struct <anonymous>’ /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c: In function ‘vmxnet_rx_frags’: /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:2599:48: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘struct <anonymous>’ from type ‘struct page *’ make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-25-generic' make: *** [vmxnet.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only'
The fast network device driver (vmxnet module) is used only for our fast networking interface. The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work independently of this feature. If you wish to have the fast network driver enabled, you can install the driver by running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc, binutils, make and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your machine. These packages are available on your distribution's installation CD.
For what version of workstation is the fix planned?
