How to connect wireless network adapter to VMWare workstation?

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Ehsan Khodarahmi picture Ehsan Khodarahmi · Jan 5, 2011 · Viewed 337.9k times · Source

How can I connect wireless network adapter to wmvare workstation ?(My Host OS is Win Seven Ultimate, my Guest OS is Fedora 13 & my VMWare version is 6.5.0) I'm running win seven on my Dell Vostro A860 laptop & my wireless network adapter is Atheros.

Answer

Evan Powell picture Evan Powell · Jan 6, 2011

Workstation doesn't have a wireless NIC type, so direct wireless hardware access is out. If you just want to access through the extant host wireless connection, bridging is your answer.

I think the only way to get a wireless NIC dedicated to the VM would be using a USB wireless NIC as a USB-passthrough device on the VM. When you have Workstation running and a USB device plugged in, it should give you an option to change whether that device is connected to the host or to the VM.

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