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I am a newbie to Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 in VMware. Everything went perfectly, but I was unable to find the wifi symbol in the notification area in the top right corner of the desktop.

I have tried changing the memory allocation to 1GB, but even then it wasn't detecting the wifi. I also tried changing the network connection in the VMware Virtual Machine Settings to Bridged network connection. It just got disconnected from a wired connection and reconnected to that.

Can anyone please help me to overcome this problem?

Braiam
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You might be able to solve your problem with the missing networking applet icon if you gave your virtual machine more RAM. Set this configuration parameter for the virtual machine in the virtual machine settings editor (VM -> Settings -> Memory). The guest memory size should not be set lower than the minimum recommendations of the operating system provider, which is 768MB RAM for Ubuntu 13.04.

If you have a wifi connection in your host machine, then you should also have the same wifi connection in your virtual machine in VMware, if you have configured the networking in VMware to use the same network connection as the host machine is using, which is called a bridged network connection. A bridged network connection connects the guest virtual machine directly to the physical network of the host machine. The screenshot below is from the Virtual Machine Settings screen in VMware.

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  • thak you for your response karel...i'had tried changing the memory allocation to 1gb.. even then it was'nt detecting the wifi. – Shiva Chaithanya Feb 21 '14 at 15:33
  • @user3194553 The comment was helpful, so I added more info about your wifi internet connection to my answer. – karel Feb 21 '14 at 15:48
  • ya i'd just tried that..it's just got disconnected from a wired connection and reconnected to that... – Shiva Chaithanya Feb 21 '14 at 15:55
  • What does running this command: sudo lshw -C network in the terminal show? If it's too big for a comment, just edit your question and add the results to your question. – karel Feb 21 '14 at 16:48
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you can open your unity dash and search for Network Connections application, this will simply be the same as if you click that indicator on the up right hand side :)

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