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01.21.2008 at 09:17AM PST, ID: 23098674
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Networking not working in VMWare Workstation 6 on Fedora 8 on wireless

Asked by arrkerr1024 in Fedora Linux, Linux Administration, VMware

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I'm running VMWare workstation 6.0.2 build-59824 (the latest) on Fedora 8 x86_64 with all updates (kernel 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 SMP x86_64).

My ethernet and wireless controllers are both broadcom:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)

When I boot a virtual machine I get an error (below).  When I use wired network (eth0) the networking works, but not when I use wireless (wlan0).  I've tired bridging to eth0 and to wlan0, both through vmnet0, re-running vmware-config.pl each time.  No compile errors or module insertion errors.  Originally I had vmnet0 bridged to eth0 and vmnet2 bridget to wlan0, which is what I wanted so that I don't have to re-configure when I change... but I've simplified for troubleshooting purposes.

The wireless is working through ndiswrapper.  Maybe ndiswrapper just doesn't work with vmware?

The error my be nothing to worry about, since it happens on both eth0 and wlan0.Start Free Trial 
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Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel: RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (2595)
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel: Call Trace:
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff811ef3bc>] __dev_set_promiscuity+0x41/0x124
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff811ef6b7>] dev_set_promiscuity+0x15/0x2d
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff88424d33>] :vmnet:VNetBridgeStartPromisc+0x21/0x3e
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff884237d0>] :vmnet:VNetHubPortsChanged+0xa4/0xbc
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff88422639>] :vmnet:VNetConnect+0xa6/0xac
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff8842307d>] :vmnet:VNetFileOpOpen+0xda/0x175
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff8109e414>] chrdev_open+0x14d/0x184
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff8109e2c7>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x184
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff8109a1d0>] __dentry_open+0xf4/0x1c5
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff8109a355>] do_filp_open+0x2a/0x38
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff8109a028>] get_unused_fd_flags+0x72/0x11f
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff8109a3a9>] do_sys_open+0x46/0xc3
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:  [<ffffffff81026240>] sysenter_do_call+0x1b/0x67
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel:
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Jan 21 12:11:00 laptop kernel: bridge-eth0: enabled promiscuous mode
[+][-]01.21.2008 at 09:55AM PST, ID: 20707954

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[+][-]01.21.2008 at 12:53PM PST, ID: 20709545

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