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Happy Oyster

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Jan 18, 2010, 8:44:24 PM1/18/10
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Hi,

the problem is a bit tricky: a notebook has an USB UMTS-stick (I think they are
called so) and there is no Linux driver for this stick (by Huawei). The host is
w Win XP and foir this host a driver for the USB-stick exists. So the only way
to get into the internet is to use XP as host --- and get stuck, because there
is no way to make the VMware understand how to use the (whatever) of theh hos
for internet access.

Any ideas?

Merci,
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Hans-Peter Diettrich

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Jan 19, 2010, 10:38:54 AM1/19/10
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Happy Oyster schrieb:

> the problem is a bit tricky: a notebook has an USB UMTS-stick (I think they are
> called so) and there is no Linux driver for this stick (by Huawei). The host is
> w Win XP and foir this host a driver for the USB-stick exists.

A common Linux problem. Try to get only hardware with Linux drivers in
the future. [Geiz ist eben doch nicht immer geil ;-]

> So the only way
> to get into the internet is to use XP as host --- and get stuck, because there
> is no way to make the VMware understand how to use the (whatever) of theh hos
> for internet access.

Using an NAT network adapter in the VM should allow to access the
Internet, as soon as the host connects to it. But I'm not sure how to
configure the Linux guest - with a Linux host my Windows VMs connect
without any problems via NAT.

DoDi

Werner Flamme

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Jan 19, 2010, 12:28:02 PM1/19/10
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Happy Oyster [19.01.2010 02:44]:

> Hi,
>
> the problem is a bit tricky: a notebook has an USB UMTS-stick (I think they are
> called so) and there is no Linux driver for this stick (by Huawei). The host is
> w Win XP and foir this host a driver for the USB-stick exists. So the only way
> to get into the internet is to use XP as host --- and get stuck, because there
> is no way to make the VMware understand how to use the (whatever) of theh hos
> for internet access.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Merci,

You could set up the network between VMWare and your host in a way that
VMWare uses the host as router. Did you search at
<http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/>?

Are you sure that there is no driver for your Huawei stick? I have one
myself and it works fine with my linux box.

HTH
Werner

Happy Oyster

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Jan 19, 2010, 10:40:29 PM1/19/10
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With Ubuntu their seems to be some kludge. But I have SuSE.

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