vmware (vmnet is not loaded) issue after kernel update

[Derek Broughton]

marc wrote:

> Just ran aptitude update on Gutsy which installed a new kernel[1]:

"aptitude update" never installs anything - it just updates your package
view.  If you really have installed new packages, you must have used one of
the upgrade optins.

> After reboot, as usual for vmware, I ran:
> 
>   sudo vmware-config-network.pl
... 
> So, I tried:
> 
>   sudo aptitude reinstall vmware-server
> 
> but this fails[2].
> 
> Any ideas?
 
Try dpkg-reconfigure, and if that doesn't do the job, purging and then
installing vmware.  Also, you can look in /var/lib/dpkg/info/vmware* to see
what the postinst scripts usually do.
-- 
derek