vmware (vmnet is not loaded) issue after kernel update

[marc]

Hi,

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

After reboot, as usual for vmware, I ran:

  sudo vmware-config-network.pl

but this failed with 

  Starting VMware services:
     Virtual machine monitor failed
     Virtual ethernet failed
  Module vmnet is not loaded.  Please verify that it is loaded before
  running this script.

So:

  sudo modprobe vmnet
  FATAL: Module vmnet not found.

So, I tried:

  sudo aptitude reinstall vmware-server

but this fails[2].

Any ideas?

-- 
Cheers,
Marc

[1]
title		Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-15-generic
root		(hd0,4)
kernel		/vmlinuz-2.6.22-15-generic root=UUID=27fd1bd9-1902-4f78-
8176-2e20b4403d8c ro quiet splash
initrd		/initrd.img-2.6.22-15-generic

[2]
Unpacking replacement vmware-server ...
Setting up vmware-server (1.0.4-1gutsy2) ...
Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                            
failed
   Virtual ethernet                                                   
failed
Module vmnet is not loaded.  Please verify that it is loaded before
running this script.

invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-server, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing vmware-server (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vmware-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up vmware-server (1.0.4-1gutsy2) ...
Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                            
failed
   Virtual ethernet                                                   
failed
Module vmnet is not loaded.  Please verify that it is loaded before
running this script.

invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-server, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing vmware-server (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vmware-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
Building tag database... Done