VMware and kernel 2.6.12

[Benjamin Duehring]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:44, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Hi, people
> 
> Has anyone successfully installed VMware 5 WITH networking on kernel
> 2.6.12? I had it working flawlessly on many releases of kernel 2.6.11,
> but can't get it to work on 2.6.12. I've tried on FC3 and FC4 with the
> same results.
> After running vmware-config.pl, vmnet0 (bridged) won't start. After
> that, any attempt to re-run vmware-config.pl causes it to freeze. If I
> reboot the computer, running vmware displays a message stating it has
> not been configured for the running kernel and if I run vmware-config.pl
> again, I'm back to the beginning (vmnet0 won't start).
> If I do not install networking support when running vmware-config.pl,
> vmware works ok (without any kind of networking, of course).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marcelo
> 

Hello,

you need to apply the any any patch.
In the forums you can find a guide how to do it.
Please have a look at  http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=59994

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