VMware player will not install on Dapper

[Sean Malone]

Hi everybody,

I previously had Vmware player running on my laptop with no problems.  Now I can't use it.  I've tried to re-install it and I get the following errors.  Can anyone tell me what this means?  Thanks.

Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                             done
   Virtual ethernet                                                    done
   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0                                  failed
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background)                    done
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background)                    done
   NAT service on /dev/vmnet8                                         failed
invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up xserver-xorg-core (1.0.2-0ubuntu10.1) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:
 vmware-player
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Sean