hi,Drew
Thank you for your reply.
>First off. Which VMWare program are you using? 
My VMWare in use is station, the following information comes from my VMWare:
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Product:VMware® Workstation
Version:7.1.2 build-301548
Host OS version:Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600, Service Pack 3
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>what's the output of "lsusb"?
Here is the output :
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[root@wulmcent ~]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:1006 Atheros Communications, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
[root@wulmcent ~]#
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So i think my CentOS(2.6.18-128.el5) in VMWare has recognized my usb device, but the system can't drive it.
The light in my wireless card is still off.
On the other way, i have tried the ndiswrapper(1.56) using the drivers on winXP.
My wireless card can work well on winXP.So i think the driver will work in centOS too.
In fact, it cound't work although i've tried every driver i have that work well on winXP.
Here is my try:
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[root@wulmcent MW54U]# ls
150U  C69  U300T  U70  UD10
[root@wulmcent MW54U]# cd U70
[root@wulmcent U70]# ls
athur.sys  athuw.sys  netathuw.inf
[root@wulmcent U70]# ndiswrapper -i netathuw.inf
driver netathuw is already installed
[root@wulmcent U70]# ndiswrapper -l
netathuw : invalid driver!
[root@wulmcent U70]#
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U70 is a driver directory, the driver in it can work well in winXP but can not be installed in centOS.
And i also tried different drivers in directory 150U, C69, U300T and UD10. They displayed
the same error.
Can you give me some advice? 
Thank you very much!

2011/6/8 Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com>
> hi,
>    i'm woo, I'm a newer to CentOS. I installed my CentOS5.3(2.6.18-128.el5)
> in VMware.
> And my wireless card is MERCURY 54U(Atheros AR5xxx).I plugged the USB card
> into my virtual machine, but it couldn't be found.

First off. Which VMWare program are you using? There are some pretty
big differences between the Player/Workstation/Server family and the
ESX(i)/vSphere family of products.

ESX you can pretty much write that idea off unless you have a newer
system that supports Intel's VT-d (or AMD's equivalent). Player is a
bit different if it's a usb device as you can attach to the guest a
required.

Assuming Player, are you *absolutely sure* that you connected the USB
device to the guest per VMware's procedures? If yes, what's the output
of "lsusb"? We need to know *if* it's being seen by the guest at all
to begin with.


--
Drew

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