Error: I'm afraid this is the first I've heard of a "trackback" flavoured Blosxom. Try dropping the "/+trackback" bit from the end of the URL.
Vmware on Ubuntu WLAN problems
VMWare Workstation on recent Ubuntu has always had problems. It reported that bridging was not available even though it was configured.
Today, while trying to get a network connection working more transparently for work, I found a note on one of the ubuntu forums that recommended loading the latest version of the madwifi driver. I followed the instructions from the thread, and the error went away: vmware loads much more cleanly now.
I will probably need to rebuild the driver whenever the kernel gets updated, until ubuntu catches up to the latest version of the driver.
Mind you, bridging still does not actually work with a wireless connection, but this gets it closer.
I found another thread? -- this time on the vmware forums -- that described how to patch vmware's vmnet module so it will talk to the WLAN. However, the prepatched module on offer is for vmware 6.0.1 and I am at 6.0.2.
I tried making the patch changes manually, but apparently did something wrong. Vmware barfed all over the place with strange errors after I rebuilt it with the patched module.
Next I'll try the packaged patch (which does things a bit differently) and see if that gives better results. According to comments later in the thread it should work with 6.0.2....
And it does. Yay. The Vmware guest is now bridged instead of NATed.
Aaaand the more direct connection doesn't seem to make the Cygwin Xfree server any happier. I've turned off the Windows firewall and made sure the 'hosts' files on both servers know about each other, and Cygwin is still refusing to connect. Time for more googling.
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