Sorry to say but it did not worked as well, but i found out one thing which is that I've installed workstation 9.0 and 7 as well and found my NIC is not recognized. My motherborard has an on-board Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
Does anyone knows if there's a driver for this NIC?. to support VMWare
Atif