My understanding is that 802.11 NAT, etc., connectivity from SL 7 to 
VirtualBox to MS Win does not work because the kernel releases for SL 7 
no longer support this possibility.  I know it functions in SL 6 because 
my spouse still has SL 6 on her laptop (her machine is underprovisioned 
effectively to run a 64 bit OS and it is not cost effective to 
re-provision the machine, although the CPU is an X86-64) and this 
works.  This is necessary to run an application that must connect to the 
Internet and is not available for native Linux, only MS Win and Mac OS 
X.  (For those who are curious, the application is an USA income tax 
preparation/paying program of which we have used an annual edition for 
many years under MS Win under VirtualBox under SL.)  I have migrated my 
machines to SL 7.

Given this, if I instead connect using 802.3 to a 802.3 port and do not 
use 802.11, will the standard NAT I mention above work?     My 
understanding from previous responses/posts to this list is that the SL7 
kernel series still does provide this necessary support for 802.3 but 
not 802.11.

I have attempted to use a USB port 802.11 WNIC that is supported under 
Linux and purportedly under MS Win 7; VirtualBox does redirect the USB 
device to MS Win and MS Win "sees" it.  However, the MS Win driver is 
lacking, and unless I have Internet MS Win connectivity, I do not know 
how to get the MS Win driver.  Under MS Win, the driver seems to be 
gotten automagically from some MS Win repository, possibly one from 
Microsoft.  If at all possible, I do not want to do any non-automagic 
systems work on MS Win, particularly as in most cases this seems to 
involve regedit (editing the MS Win 'registry", a poorly constructed and 
documented structure).

Any information will be appreciated; otherwise, I will need to use my 
wife's SL 6 machine.

Yasha Karant