starcraft

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 09:29:17PM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
>   
>> I'm trying to get on the Internet in the W98SE guest. It's not 
>> recognizing the PCI controller. WHich is, I guess why it's not finding 
>> the correct NIC, which means I can't get onto the Internet to try 
>> Starcraft n Battle.Net, which is the whole point of all of this. I don't 
>> know why the guest won't just use the perfectly- working NIC in the 
>> linux host.
>>
>> I used to have a Hardware Browser in fedora 7. It's gone. I remember 
>> when I did the clean install I had too many panels and panel sub-menus. 
>> I found a way to consolidate them but I guess, in retrospect, I /did/ 
>> lose a couple of things. One of them was the Hardware Browser. I'm 
>> hoping to go in there, find the PCI controller, then tell W98SE guest 
>> that that is the controller (and grab the driver from the Internet if 
>> neccesary).
>>     
>
> Did you configure vmware to use bridged networking, or NAT or host only?
> Host only won't work for this.  bridged is great if you have a router on
> the network that could give you an ip by dhcp.  NAT is good if you use
> the host as the internet gateway and want vmware hidden behind it.
>
> As for win98, make sure it has the pcnet32 ethernet driver installed.  I
> would think it came with it, but I am not sure.  If not you should be
> able to install the vmware utilities insude win98 (it should be nagging
> you about it if you haven't already) which probably include the network
> drivers.
>   
For  'Use virtual device' should I choose 'vmxnet' or 'vlance'?

Chris

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