[PLUG] vmplayer stops working...

[Ronald Chmara]

On Jan 24, 2009, at 7:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> someone wrote:
>> I am on a Fedora 9 system updated to the 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686
>> kernel and I can't get vmware network devices to work.  I get
>> an error that /dev/vmnet8 can't be found and sure enough it
>> isn't there.  I can't run /usr/sbin/vmware-config.pl because
>> it doesn't exist, so don't suggest that.
>>
>> I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling vmware-player, that
>> doesn't fix the problem.
>>
>> Anyone else run into this problem?  Now I'm really wishing that
>> I hadn't upgraded.
>>
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> Which version of VMware Player are you running? They upgraded not too
> long ago. It might be worth heading to the VMware site and  
> downloading a
> fresh copy.
>
> Also, "vmware-config.pl" does not exist in the most recent (6.5.1)
> version of VMware *Workstation*. The new utility is called
> "vmware-modconfig". Try (as root)
>
> # vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
>
> That should at least give you error messages. It should be in /usr/bin
> if you need the whole path.

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-Bop