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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product:VMware® Workstation Version:7.1.2 build-301548 Host OS version:Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600, Service Pack 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >what's the output of "lsusb"? Here is the output : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root at 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 at wulmcent ~]# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ------------------------------------------------------------------- [root at wulmcent MW54U]# ls 150U C69 U300T U70 UD10 [root at wulmcent MW54U]# cd U70 [root at wulmcent U70]# ls athur.sys athuw.sys netathuw.inf [root at wulmcent U70]# ndiswrapper -i netathuw.inf driver netathuw is already installed [root at wulmcent U70]# ndiswrapper -l netathuw : invalid driver! [root at wulmcent U70]# ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 at 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 > > "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." > --Marie Curie > > "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." > -Unknown > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20110609/0914b9ef/attachment-0006.html>