Connecting Snow Leopard to internet via VMWare / WinXP Mobile pendrive

Hi there,
I'm in India and to get on the internet have picked up the Tata Photon+ USB Broadband hub (pen drive dongle) which doesn't work in Mac (nothing in India seems to...) This allows me to access the internet through VMWare 3/ WinXP.
It must be possible to get Snow Leopard to access the internet via my virtual XP machine surely? This would allow me to use Mail and so on as normal within Mac OS with XP running in the background and connecting to the Tata pen drive....
Thanks for any help!
Tony

Interesting, thanks for the report/tip!

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