Joined: Aug 13, 2004 Posts: 335 Location: Maysville, KY
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:32 am Post subject: vmware vmnet fails with atheros chipset (ath_pci)
There is a known issue with atheros based wireless cards and vmware (workstation, server) in which the vmnet0 fails.
The error can appear at different times. The one most noticeable is when running the command:
Code:
vmware-config.pl
and appears as this error message:
Code:
* Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] * Virtual ethernet [ ok ] * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ !! ] * Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) [ ok ] * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet2 [ ok ] * Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) [ ok ] * NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 [ ok ]
There may be some message about bridging ath0 to vmnet0 in either dmesg or /var/log/messages.
The reason for the failure is that the madwifi-ng drivers do not follow ethernet standards and includes a header length of 88 while the standards specify a length of 14.
Basically you will need to download the patch, download the madwifi source code, and make sure you have everything in place for compiling the source code (including gcc, kernel headers, etc). Apply the patch and then follow the make process.
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