Zoonyx Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 I have a DS3 mobo, with a crapp Belkin wireless card thing. Neither network cards are really supported (Supposedly I may be able to get the onboard ethernet working, but thats no use anyway - i only have wireless access. So I could go out and buy a supported card, but I just wondered if I can run XP in VMWare Fusion, and then set the default gateway to the vm machine? i know it works the other way round fine, but can I use a VM as my gateway? If not, is there any other funky solutions I can use before I go and buy a new wireless card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3phemeral Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 ... So I could go out and buy a supported card, but I just wondered if I can run XP in VMWare Fusion, and then set the default gateway to the vm machine? As far as i'm aware [and this makes sense too], VMWare/Parallels are only able to access your hardware through your host OS - not directly [+ i think there's a layer of emulation involved as well]. Hence, this would not be possible. It'd be nice if it worked; this would also mean one could - for instance - merrily install the latest drivers for a DX10 capable card on Vista and play DX10 games on a virtual machine. As far as i'm aware: not possible.I don't know of any other solutions. Maybe someone else can provide further insight. Have you searched the forums for your EXACT wireless receiver? I have a DS3 moboI'm assuming you have a Gigabyte mobo. 'DS3' doesn't say quite enough: there's the GA-P965-DS3 and the GA-P35-DS3, possibly even more 'DS3's' around, and there's definitely a difference between them. Even though it's not directly relevant to your post, please try to be specific when saying what hardware you have. If you have the GA-P35-DS3, i think that has a realtec NIC, so you could try finding the RTL1xxx_1.02.pkg or newer package on sourceforge... Tho you say you can't put any use to that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoonyx Posted December 8, 2007 Author Share Posted December 8, 2007 Hiya - sorry for the lack of info. th ethernet port I guess would help me to play around with osx - since I could use my laptop as a gateway. its the P965-DS3, with a Marvell NIC. Some people say it just wont work, others say it will. I have a guide specifically for this mobo, so I'll try that. The belkin wireless is a PCMCIA-PCI adaptor, with a PCMCIA wireless card in it, so I'd need 2 drivers, neither of which are available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3phemeral Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Hiya - sorry for the lack of info. th ethernet port I guess would help me to play around with osx - since I could use my laptop as a gateway. its the P965-DS3, with a Marvell NIC. Some people say it just wont work, others say it will. I have a guide specifically for this mobo, so I'll try that. The belkin wireless is a PCMCIA-PCI adaptor, with a PCMCIA wireless card in it, so I'd need 2 drivers, neither of which are available I didn't find the P965-DS3 guide you referred to, but it's definitely worth a shot. I found a set of instructions here as well...As for your wireless, sounds to me like you won't really get that going... I have no clue which PCMCIA/USB-dongle wireless receivers work with OSX [i'm an ethernet man ], but i'm sure with a bit of searching you'll be able to find a reasonable solution... All the best, 3phemeral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoonyxint Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Even I didn't find the guide referred by you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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