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#1). Virtual machines use virtualized hardware....therefore you don't want to go to Dell and download a driver for their NIC and install that within your virtual machine as it's not seeing the Dell hardware...but rather a virtualized NIC.
If I were you, I would uninstall the VMWare Tools. Then uninstall any NIC drives that you have installed under the Windows 7 VM. Then, go into the settings of the VM (from within VMWare Player menu) and remove the NIC. Boot the machine so that it has NO NIC. Then, power off the VM. Add the NIC back to the VM hardware (within the VMWare Player menu), set it to BRIDGED then boot up. It should detect new hardware and install drivers for it. Then try and see if you have
access. If not, install the VMWare Tools.