I'm hoping some of you here have run gentoo on a windows host and will know something about the various networking possibilities.
My setup: Wireless connected laptop running windows vista premium home Local lan network connected to internet via cable. Home router has the internet connection and wireless laptop is joined into lan by a WAP (Wireless access point). With static ip addressing (not dhcp). When setting up gentoo in the virtual machine you have two main approaches to networking. Bridged and Nat. Can anyone tell me which is best suited for my setup. Starting the 2008.0 minimal iso file in vmware... I end up with a working network immediately without doing a thing. Maybe I can just transfer those settings somehow but there are no setting in /etc/conf.d/net on the install disk. It appears to have gotten an address from a dhcp server built into vmware. I don't want to jerk around with wireless setting for the gentoo install and would prefer to connect thru the hosts ip and nameserver. Should I use `Bridged' or `Nat'. And how to set it up after making that decision. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
