Well "Bridged' mode USED to work, however NAT-mode worked almost perfectly thank you! It seems that VMware has its own virtual DHCP server. It seems to have a /24 (class C) subnet mask but on a different subnet (192.168.164.1).

Interestingly a second VMware I have running on a different box on the same LAN set up a 192.168.157.1/24 on the "NAT" interface (VMware8 when you right-click Network-Neighborhood/placed).

So there has to be some silent-static route between the VMware subnet and the standard LAN subnet I am running. However, it wasn't based on any discovery protocol, I could not ping my OTHER VMware-Knoppix-install sitting on Box2 which was running ont he .164 subnet.

However each VM could ping the "real" boxes on the LAN as well as the Internet.

Perhaps I could create a static route to allow the (2) VMware installs to speak to each other......... (hmmm)

In any event, thank you for the recommendation.... I wonder why Bridged-mode stopped working... (shrug)

Thank you.