From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 19:18:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1F816A401 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:18:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netslists@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC1913C48A for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:18:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netslists@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so758981ugh for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:18:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jZejMnl9vfBial1t6zwDGKz0b3sF+BLZibrLjkD4jT7B7IuFVi/2aYvRURadwV0/YsT+mwtv2bENrmngndbwdnfrwxjFt6cL3FJ/yKEsIM/RyyA8E20In9AFPeNMp9lWlwoo3QxAtpimAC1pB/kRvpP9qnAnij3ksoJMUwAqr1A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DuJMo1y4UQQSeYQ5sOa6N+sGs4aqOSm27TjRwsV9v7w9juDxJihktMoXjNg9pPIYaOJ3iOtRxuG3qp/HwcHE3WFTlp9nRLRNmdjQdQ/WlTiuUJyXhwm0+bHH3cimqAWZfQGdLT+FnvrnTDLu738q+wvVvj/kz72/eUj10OeMH3k= Received: by 10.82.155.10 with SMTP id c10mr6369315bue.1177699803157; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.9.8? ( [91.135.49.10]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id z40sm1257629ikz.2007.04.27.11.50.01; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <463245CE.7060104@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:49:50 +0200 From: Sten Daniel Soersdal User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juergen Lock References: <200704050712.l357Ck5F000488@pluto.hedeland.org> <4614F65D.3010403@freebsd.org> <20070405215754.GA28008@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <461A6431.2030709@freebsd.org> <20070410123604.D35599@kozubik.com> <462379F1.3050008@freebsd.org> <20070416063519.L35599@kozubik.com> <200704191826.l3JIQ7ap061788@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <200704191826.l3JIQ7ap061788@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bounty and timeline on vmware 5.x on FreeBSD 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:18:14 -0000 Juergen Lock wrote: > In article <20070416140454.GA79264@uws1.starlofashions.com> scottro@nyc.rr.com > wrote: > >> ... >> My only problems with VirtualBox were in getting it to use bridged >> networking with a wireless connection. I had no problem when it was >> connected by cabled ethernet, but judging from a bit of googling, I'm >> not the only one who couldn't get it working with wireless. >> >> Disclaimer number 2--I'm not at all experienced with bridging in Linux, >> it seems to be a bit different than what I do with FreeBSD, and it could >> easily be a PEBCAK problem. > > Afaik the problem is that bridging causes the source ethernet address of > packets you send to change, and not all wireless nics/drivers support > sending other source ethernet addresses than the nic's own. (This usually > isn't a problem with wired nics...) > In AP mode it should work but in station mode it can't because of 802.11 restrictions. There is something called WDS but it's a poorly documented hack and is not, AFAIK, supported in FreeBSD. -- Sten Daniel Soersdal