Lorcon

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For those who are not aware, here is something worth looking into. It is
not VMWare and has 3rd party drivers/hooks for your ethernet and wifi
interfaces, though I am uncertain as to the extent of their capabilities:

COLinux:
http://www.colinux.org/

Take care
JW


> why would VMWare be any good to him? ok... you can simulate a linux 
> environment, but the wireless device will not be present in the VM. it will 
> simply be a hook to the device, however as generic NIC!!
>
> IMHO, even if it was available as (e.g. MadWifi driven) wireless device - 
> VMWare wouldn't be capable of transporting the raw data to the windows 
> wireless driver as 
>  - VMWare is still based on Windows,
>  - is just a casual app and
>  - has no direct access to the driver's outgoing queues!!
>
> The VMWare NIC would probably try to understand the (RAW data) packets and try 
> to interpret them as layer3 TCP packets, trying to send them over the casual 
> socket - failing miserably!!
>
> correct me if i'm wrong, but i think that was a stupid answer to a not so 
> stupid question!!
>
> greetings

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