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Hi,

Im trying to connect to wireless networks inside my vm, i understand i need to make a change to the host networking adaptors but everytime i do this it keeps loading the card within ubuntu as a wired network ?

is there anyway around this so i can keep the wired lan port and wireless card as they are on the host, otherwise if i want to connect to wireless networks or devices i have to do this on a windows host

You don't need to do anything to the host.
The guest will use the host adapter/s to connect and you set what you want to use in the guest settings eth0= wired wlan=wireless.
If you want both available to the guest add a second adapter in the network settings of the guest.

thats the problem it doesnt detect that i have a "wlan" only "eth0"

The guest will always see this as a wired network. So if you have one wlan and one eth0 the guest will show them as eth0 & eth1
Or are you saying that in the main manager and network settings Name: you do not see both eth0 and wlan0 as being available?

that is correct i dont see the wlan inside any of my guests, windows or linux. however it is possible to view the wlan on my windows 7 host

Possible with USB WLAN devices.

With internal devices not possible (to use directly). Only Bridged and connect to WLAN uses the Adapter, but its shown as wired device.