![]() In other words, Mac OS X’s Network System Preferences pane must show you a yellow dot next to at least one physical networking device (probably either your “Built-in Ethernet” or your “AirPort” ports). Finally, I can connect to Vodafone’s 3G network, and all should be well.įirst, in order for VMware to actually initiate the network bridge when it starts up, it must detect that a physical link is active on your Mac. At this point, I can enable Windows XP’s built-in Internet Connection Sharing (stupidly dubbed “ICS” because everything needs a TLA) on the 3G connection so that Windows NATs it through to the bridged virtual ethernet card. Once bridged, both the Windows guest and the Mac OS X host would logically be on the same ethernet network segment. To get the Windows guest to share its Internet connection from the 3G card to my Mac, I would need to bridge VMware’s virtual ethernet adapter from the Windows guest to the Mac OS X host. The solution is obvious, but a few gotchas really bit me hard. I wanted my Mac to be directly connected. Connecting to the Internet with the 3G card using the Windows guest was smooth sailing, but that only provided the Internet connection to the Windows virtual machine. The only way I could get my Vodafone 3G card to work was to fire up a Windows XP guest inside of my MacBook Pro, using VMware Fusion. Of course, Vodafone’s software for Windows works without a hitch. Unfortunately, the Vodafone Mobile Connect software for Mac OS X as of this writing is obscenely poor. In my situation, I have temporarily obtained a Vodafone 3G mobile card. In some situations, like the odd one I now find myself in, the only way to get Internet connectivity is to use a solution that requires a fair bit of maneuvering.
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