the virtual machine not connecting to the bridge connection correctly?

[sseckelsgg]

The virtual machine may not be able to communicate with the host or with other machines on your network. I have vmware workstation 7.1.3

how do i start this correctly so the vmware workstation works with backtrack 4 correctly after it loads up... so i can run /etc/init.d/networking start so i get interface wlan0 correctly connected in virtual machine

right now i am getting no such device wlan0 so what do i do please

i got the network bridged automatically in virtual settings Replicate is unchecked in the box

[iproute]

in a konsole terminal try

root@bt:~# modprobe -l | grep vm

which should list the vmware modules you have available. If nothing is listed the modules may not have been built during the installation. You may also want to try it without the pipe to grep and see if you have any modules for vmware that way also. If they are present, you will want to
use modprobe to add them in. To check if you already have these modules loaded you can use

root@bt:~# lsmod | grep vm

again you can omit the grep if you like. vmnet is really the one in question. Also if you run ifconfig -a you should see some vmnet adapters. If I recall correctly you may need to do something like

root@bt:~# /etc/init.d/vmware start

FYI I've never installed vmware in bt4. I have installed it in gentoo and ubuntu 10.04. Gentoo is where I had similar trouble to what you describe

[pentest09]

If your looking for wlan0 it seems your using usb wifi device?
If your using the bridged device in vmware then it will be as follows

#ifconfig eth0 up
#dhclient eth0

job done

if you have external wifi usb adapter the make sure it is ticked in the removable devices in vmware then as follows

#lsusb (to see what usb devices are connected.)

#ifconfig wlan0 up (or ra0 depends what is availabe)
#dhclient wlan0

for internet on the usb device as follows

#/etc/init.d/wicd start

done!

For bt4 final in vmware 7+ please note if you have a rtl8187 in bt4 r1 or r2 then you will do following

#rmmod rtl8187
#rfkill block all
#rfkill unblock all
#modprobe rtl8187
#rfkill unblock all
#ifconfig wlan0 up

Kind Regards Dee

[scouter]

Hi,
after do all this happen please help
'wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device'
intel link 1000 bgn

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