Hardy broke my VMWare Player

So far I like hardy well enough. I have had a few problem with the upgrade. Only on program I have installed. One of those is VMWare Player. My company has a windows only app that the business runs on. My boss doesn't care what my primary OS is as long as I can access our app. So when VMWare Player didn't run I was in trouble.
 
When I would run vmwareplayer I get this error
 
 
workstation:/usr/lib/vmware/lib$ /usr/bin/vmplayer
vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.
 
When I tried to reconfigure it I got a compiling error.
 
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/comport.o
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
In file included from include/asm/bitops.h:2,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/vcpuset.h:74,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/modulecall.h:23,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.h:18,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/hostif.h:18,
from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.c:14:
include/asm/bitops_32.h:9:2: error: #error only can be included directly
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.
 
For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".
 
Execution aborted.
 
I found the answer at this site
 
http://czarism.com/easy-peasy-vmwareplayer-vmplayer-ubuntu-hardy-804
 
I have to combined some of the ideas on this page.
 
> cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
> tar xvf vmmon.tar
> Open ./vmmon-only/include/vcpuset.h in a text editor, change the offending line (#include "asm/bitops.h" -> #include "linux/bitops.h"), and save
> mv vmmon.tar vmmon-BACKUP.tar
> tar cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
> sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
 
I used all the defaults for the install and every thing worked.
 
This really help me and I hope this will help someone else.
 
Bryan