You connect to the network under Win 3.1 under vmware just as you do
under Win 3.1 when not under vmware. Which is "with great difficulty,"
I suspect. The networking support under Windows 95/98 is much improved.
The path for the modem is /dev/ttyS1.
In theory you can connect the modem via Linux and then use Linux as a
gateway via the host-only networking to vmware, but I've had little
success with that myself. Indeed, I've had little success with
host-only networking, period, myself.
So when I need to do this, I just connect the modem under vmware and
let Windows own the modem. That works well for me.
As for transferring files, see my earlier reply to your later mail.
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Dear friends:
|
| [Running Mandrake 7.0]
|
| I have an unusual situation on my hands having to do with trying to make
| my Ethernet 3com card work in Win3.1 on VMware.
|
| My wife and I are Russian translators, as some of you may know, and TV6
| from Moscow has recently begun broadcasting live ( throughout the day, I
| presume) on the Internet. Most unfortunately, they have chosen the
| Redmondians' Windows Media Player as their player of choice.
|
| I left Windows 95 after two years of nightmare and only Linux saved from
| sheer insanity. I am sure many of you have had the same experience.
|
| TV6 is the first major Russian network to broacast its live domestic
| programs on the Internet, and it would be a darn shame if it were not
| available to us Linux users just because it is on WMP.
|
| I would think twice or thrice if this meant installing Win95 or 98 on
| VMware. The very idea of dealing with the Win95/98 Registry makes me
| want to put a gun to my head.
|
| Win3.1, on the other hand, is a relatively easy OS to handle, even for a
| non-techie like myself. And it's very easy to restore it by just
| reinstalling over itself. Personally, I have little need for it (except
| that we still use it on our old 486 until full Cyrillic support is
| available in StarOffice and throughout Linux.
|
| So, I installed Win3.1 (NOT Win3.11 for Works), then installed my
| original Netscape 2.02 from Bellsouth, then upgraded it to Netscape
| 3.04. The Bellsouth Netscape version gave me two options: Standard
| DIAL-UP installation or CUSTOM (for LAN users). At the time, I was using
| a dial-up modem. Now, as a broadband user on Bellsouth, I am considered
| by them to be on their Bellsouth LAN. I decided to go ahead and install
| the dial-up version anyway, figuring that I could this way have the
| option of either dial-up or broadband (as I do on Linux with my U. S.
| Robotics ext 56k modem as my backup when ADSL goes down, which is quite
| often).
|
| Well, it just so happens that Microsoft has made their WMP available for
| Win3.1 at:
|
| http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/allplayers.asp
|
| Of course, everything hinges on whether this WMP 3.0 for Win3.1 is in
| fact the equivalent of their WMP 6.4 for Win95/98.
|
| This seems to be the case. Please correct me if I am wrong. Obviously,
| if it isn't the case, then I am barking up the wrong tree. If, however,
| it does play the video on TV6, then this would be a huge bonanza for
| Russian scholars, teachers and students everywhere who insist on using
| Linux (not too many as of this writing but I am optimistic).
|
| I have read all the relevant documentation on enabling devices and
| peripherals on the VMware site at:
|
| http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/troubleshooting/peripherals_ts_linux.html
|
|
| MAIN QUESTIONS:
|
| 1) During Installation I was asked if I wanted "bridge networking", in
| fact, it was already chosen for me under "Networking." VMware Support
| (see above) advised configuring the ethernet adapter and other devices
| and said that it all depended on the host OS, that is, Linux. After
| turning off Win3.1 and powering vmware off, as instructed, I went into
| the VMware Configuration Editor. The "network bridge" option needed no
| configuring. It had already been taken care of. But how do I actually
| configure and connect to the Internet through Win3.1 on VMware?
|
| 2) How do I connect to the Internet on Win3.1 through Vmware? To enable
| the modem and other devices, I am supposed to enter the path. But what
| path, where? For instance, what path would you put for the ttyS1 modem
| device? I typed "whereis ttyS1" and got nothing. Or do they want the
| /home/sher/vmware/Win31 path? Well, I tried that and got an error
| message when clicking on my Netscape dialer telling me that "the
| communications port was not responding or was being used by another
| telephy device. And should my dial-up modem be turned on first in Linux
| (kpppd) or directly in Win3.1/Vmware?
|
| 3) How to do you transfer files from Linux to Windows if the files are
| too big for floppies?
|
| All my thanks in advance to all of you who would be kind enough to
| respond.
|
| Yours,
|
| Benjamin
|
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| Sher's Russian Web
| http://www.websher.net
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