WiFi workaround

Overview:

A (heavyweight) workaround for the WiFi issue.

Details:

Installing a virtualization solution like the (free) VMware Workstation Player provides a virtual ethernet card. Then installing WinPcap inside the virtual machine allows access to the internet via WiFi from AppleWin.

VMware allows you to configure the virtual ethernet card in two ways:

• Bridged, this means that the virtual Uthernet card becomes visible with its MAC address in the WiFi net and that an Apple II DHCP client gets its address from the usual DHCP server (typically a WAN router).
• NAT, this means that the virtual Uthernet card is part of a virtual network with three participants:
  • A virtual Ethernet card added by VMware to the "outside" (aka host) Windows.
  • The virtual Ethernet card used by the "inside" (aka guest) Windows.
  • The virtual Uthernet card.
  
  That virtual network has its own IP address range and has its own DHCP server (being part of VMware). An Apple II DHCP client gets its address from that DHCP server.

Another positive aspect of that "emulation inside vitualization" approach is that the "inside" (aka guest) Windows always has just one single network interface: that virtual ethernet card mentioned above. And that interface has always the same name (even when switching between Bridged and NAT) so one never has to fiddle with network setting of the emulators using WinPcap.