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Virtual PC on PowerBook G4

Already tried posting on another forum, but maybe better here. (Virtual PC is running Windows 2000)

I'm trying to get Virtual PC 6 to recognize my Wireless connection on my MAC OS X. For those that are not familiar with it, there are two types of networking protocols with Virtual PC. Virtual Switch (obtains its own IP) and Shared (piggy backs off of MAC OS X). In Virtual PC it only recognizes my built-in ethernet controller, not my wireless Airport. But I thought that if I ran the networking as shared VPC would recognize the connection on my MAC OS X wireless and piggyback off it, but that doesn't seem to work.
I also thought that I could run the Virtual Switch and in that case it would get its own, but there is no setting for a wireless controller on VPC, so it only looks for the ethernet connection.

Any ideas? or other web-site that might be helpful?

Already tried posting on another forum, but maybe better here. (Virtual PC is running Windows 2000)

I'm trying to get Virtual PC 6 to recognize my Wireless connection on my MAC OS X. For those that are not familiar with it, there are two types of networking protocols with Virtual PC. Virtual Switch (obtains its own IP) and Shared (piggy backs off of MAC OS X). In Virtual PC it only recognizes my built-in ethernet controller, not my wireless Airport. But I thought that if I ran the networking as shared VPC would recognize the connection on my MAC OS X wireless and piggyback off it, but that doesn't seem to work.
I also thought that I could run the Virtual Switch and in that case it would get its own, but there is no setting for a wireless controller on VPC, so it only looks for the ethernet connection.
Any ideas? or other web-site that might be helpful?
macfixit.com
macintouch.com

a shot in the dark... since i don't use vpc in osx...

but in the pc world, each device needs a driver (extenison in mac os). in you device manager in the system panel, do you see a red "X" at all or a unrecognized network device? if so, you need to load the driver for that device so that windows can utilize that resource. The bad news is I don't think there is an apple driver for winxp (do a search in apple tech support site) But apple cards is or was essentially rebranded lucent orinoco cards, maybe you can try loading an orinoco (Proxim now) driver for it, but that is a long shot.

xp comes with its own wireless zero config once it recognizes a wireless net card or you can load apples.

did i mention there is a vpc 7? :)
maybe that will fix your problem.

Funny, I used vpc 6 with windows xp pro and it worked... maybe it has something to do with the xp or the 'xp pro' part....

do you have windows 2000 or 2000 pro?










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