Vmware

03-05-2002

I have two questions guys,

First I'm trying to get my orinoco gold to work with VMware (my physical integrated NIC in my laptop does). When I go into the config editor > nic configuration > bridge mapping and go to pull down one of the devices only my physical NIC shows up, the wirless isn't there even though I have it inserted in my laptop and it's connected to my wlan. I did make sure the vmware bridge protocol was checked in my network connection properties for the orinoco. Anyone have any ideas?

Also I need some information on setting up a linux box as a WAP and authenticating people through it with radius, and also on what radius server I should use for linux.

Thanks,
Adam

03-05-2002

The best you're going to get is going to be an ethernet emulated device, not a 802.11 emulated device. Perhaps you should try the other way around and run vmware under linux, and emulate the W2k side of things...

cowpen · 05-09-2002

VMware is some really amazing software, but it does have some limitations. Your wireless interface will never show up in your list of devices because a Linux guest OS on a Windows host does not support wireless over a bridged virtual interface. You must choose NAT instead.

While this works great for general networking, as far as I've been able to determine, NAT eliminates the possibility of monitor mode, or promiscuous mode sniffing of 802.11b packets.

03-05-2002	#1 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Vmware I have two questions guys, First I'm trying to get my orinoco gold to work with VMware (my physical integrated NIC in my laptop does). When I go into the config editor > nic configuration > bridge mapping and go to pull down one of the devices only my physical NIC shows up, the wirless isn't there even though I have it inserted in my laptop and it's connected to my wlan. I did make sure the vmware bridge protocol was checked in my network connection properties for the orinoco. Anyone have any ideas? Also I need some information on setting up a linux box as a WAP and authenticating people through it with radius, and also on what radius server I should use for linux. Thanks, Adam

03-05-2002	#2 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	not going to work... The best you're going to get is going to be an ethernet emulated device, not a 802.11 emulated device. Perhaps you should try the other way around and run vmware under linux, and emulate the W2k side of things...

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05-09-2002	#3 (permalink)
cowpen Registered Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 1	VMware is some really amazing software, but it does have some limitations. Your wireless interface will never show up in your list of devices because a Linux guest OS on a Windows host does not support wireless over a bridged virtual interface. You must choose NAT instead. While this works great for general networking, as far as I've been able to determine, NAT eliminates the possibility of monitor mode, or promiscuous mode sniffing of 802.11b packets.