[MLB-WIRELESS] Question re Prisim II cards.

[Andrew Dean]

To bridge a connection i don't think you need to set an IP ?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Smith" <tony at tonsyl.org>
To: "Melb Wireless" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 4:43 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Question re Prisim II cards.


>
> I've had an access point running under Linux for a few weeks now. Using
the
> host-ap drivers and a Dlink DWL-520 card.
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> I know that it is working perfectly as I'm able to connect to my lan with
my
> laptop and it's PCMCIA wiFi card under both Windows and Linux.
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> Now I have the first person wanting to set up a node and connect to me and
> I've agreed to sell them a surplus Dlink-520 card and set them up.
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> I thought that this would be quite simple, get the card working under
linux,
> get the wired ethernet card wroking and then bridge them using the bridge
> utils that come with Redhat 7.3.
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> In fact it all seemd to go swimmingly, the card drivers (wlan-ng) load
> perfectly and it comes up in "managed" mode etc.
>
> The bridge utils load Ok and I went through the process of creating the
> bridge, adding wlan0 and eth0 to the bridge, zeroing out the IPs on both
and
> then assigning a single IP to the bridge.
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> No errors reported but once the bridge is up I see activity at the
outgoing
> wired ethernet but canot connect via it. (laptop with wired lan card and
> known good cross-over cable).
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> Help......What am I doing wrong?
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> Cheers
>
> Tony Smith
>
> Connected to the internet in Sunny Far North Queensland Australia
> http://www.tonsyl.org
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