Public bug reported: Basically the madwifi-ng driver returns something that vmware doesn't like. This is current edgy. I'll link in a bug report that has a patch.
** Affects: linux (upstream) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: vmware-player (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed ** Bug watch added: Madwifi Trac #407 http://madwifi.org/ticket/407 ** Also affects: linux (upstream) via http://madwifi.org/ticket/407 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- vmware-player won't work with madwifi-ng drivers https://launchpad.net/bugs/59474 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs