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Windows Forum / Virtual PC / April 2008VPC2007 does not recognize Verizon Broadband Card
Hello, I have VPC2007 installed on vista business. The virtual guest OS is XP Professional SP2. The host has 3 network adapters, a wifi adapter,lan adapter and a verizon broadband card. The vitual machine can recognize and bridge the TCP/IP parameters for the wifi and lan adapters correctly, but does not recongnize the Broadband card. Is there a way to recognize the broadband card so it can be used and in the virtual XP machine? TIA. Joe How is the Verizon card attached? > Hello, > I have VPC2007 installed on vista business. The virtual guest OS is XP [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > broadband card so it can be used and in the virtual XP machine? TIA. > Joe To use the broadband connection from the vm I suspect you will need to do one of two things. 1. Use Shared Networking (NAT) to share the Internet connection. or 2. Run ICS on the host machine to share the Internet connection to the vm. If the host connects to the Internet via braodband, you cannot use that connection directly from the vm, any more than you can use a broadband connection on one PC from a second PC. You need to use some sort of Internet sharing software to share the connection. > Hello, > I have VPC2007 installed on vista business. The virtual guest OS is XP [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > broadband card so it can be used and in the virtual XP machine? TIA. > Joe >> Hello, >> I have VPC2007 installed on vista business. The virtual guest OS is XP [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> broadband card so it can be used and in the virtual XP machine? TIA. >> Joe > To use the broadband connection from the vm I suspect you will need to do >one of two things. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >connection on one PC from a second PC. You need to use some sort of Internet >sharing software to share the connection. As long as the broadband card is not recognized as a network interface card (NIC) that is true... Strange though that the card is not a NIC. Bo Berglund >As long as the broadband card is not recognized as a network interface >card (NIC) that is true... >Strange though that the card is not a NIC. Not strange at all, it works just like a dial up modem. It's not an always on connection like a DSL or cable, it has to dial in to the network...  SignatureBob Comer >>> Hello, >>> I have VPC2007 installed on vista business. The virtual guest OS is XP [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > >Bo Berglund Correct. This is a modem, not a nic. It has a phone number and needs to dial #777 and pass a username and password to the remote network. I believe some of the Verizon USB cards are misleading and show a NIC, but also a dial up connection in Network Settings I wonder?? If you use ICS on your built in NIC (Not the Verizon card) that probably will not work because the NIC will be inactive and no IP address because it is unplugged so VPC should not function because it cannot piggy back on the inactive NIC. However, I believe the NAT option that Bill suggested should work because it is not bound to the NIC - No? > >As long as the broadband card is not recognized as a network interface >>card (NIC) that is true... [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >> >>Bo Berglund >I wonder?? If you use ICS on your built in NIC (Not the Verizon card) that >probably will not work because the NIC will be inactive and no IP address >because it is unplugged so VPC should not function because it cannot piggy >back on the inactive NIC. That would be true, but you can use a loopback adapter + ICS. I'd go ahead and use just plain shared networking(NAT) unless there a reason to access the guest from the host, then I'd use the loopback+ICS. >However, I believe the NAT option that Bill suggested should work because it >is not bound to the NIC - No? I haven't tried it myself, but I expect that it would work. SignatureBob Comer >Correct. This is a modem, not a nic. It has a phone number and needs to >dial #777 and pass a username and password to the remote network. I believe [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >>> >>>Bo Berglund >Correct. This is a modem, not a nic. It has a phone number and needs to >dial #777 and pass a username and password to the remote network. I believe [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >However, I believe the NAT option that Bill suggested should work because it >is not bound to the NIC - No? In the old days of the Internet (circa mid-1990) we usually had a dial-up connection using modem to connect the net. We ran a small office with internal networking and one of the PC:s was running as a proxy server with WinGate as the software. WinGate was configured to dial in to the ISP when it detected a browser call and then it kept the connection running for a certain time after the last browser call. Thus, often when a browser hit the proxyserver the connection was up and the call could be immediately served. In this case with a dialup broadband modem I think that the host could serve as a proxyserver and have a WinGate-like software running to handle the dialup. It would then be able to serve the virtual machines as well. Btw: Is WinGate still around? It served us well until DSL came around. Bo Berglund >Btw: Is WinGate still around? It served us well until DSL came around. Yep, but it's more of a general proxy these days. Shared Networking(NAT) should approximate the same functionality for a VM, though you may have dial problems like you suggest. It tends to mark a connection as inactive for so too and disconnect, so you might want to run something on the host to keep the connection open... SignatureBob Comer >>Correct. This is a modem, not a nic. It has a phone number and needs to >>dial #777 and pass a username and password to the remote network. I believe [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > >Bo Berglund |
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