Problem

I cannot establish an internet connection on my Ubuntu/VMWare machine. I had some connection before, but now none. I've reinstalled Ubuntu, VMWare and tried some solutions to the time being wrong offline error message for this error text http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2461028 It didn't work for me since I am using bridged in the network settings

Solution

Follow these steps: - Open host virtual machine settings. - Enable ethernet connection for this connection. - Make sure that this is either of the following types of connections (link to Host VM page). - Restart your host machine.