[Bridge] bridging with a raytheon wireless card (weird problem)

[Michael Gaerttner]

greetings list, i am trying to setup a bridge on my home lan.  here is my situation:   i have a linux box on my cable modem that is doing ipmasq/nat for the machines on my lan (with ipchains) (this machine is not the bridge) the machine of course, has two nics - eth0=cable modem  eth1=192.168.0.x   i have another linux box that i use to tinker on that is on my private lan - this is the bridge machine.  it is running the 2.4.9 kernel and version 0.9.3 of the bridge-utils package.  it has a linksys nic (tulip driver) and a webgear aviator 2.4 wireless nic (ray_cs driver) .  getting the bridge up and running was a snap.  i was able to boot my laptop and obtain a 192.168.0.x ip on the wireless nic via dhcp over the bridge and it seems to be working beautifully except one annoying little problem:  whenever i do any http traffic on the wireless nic, all of the other wireless traffic slows to a crawl.  the card can only transfer at a max of like 140kb/s but it shouldn't choke this bad when trying to load a webpage.  for example, i will be streaming an mp3 on the laptop from a machine on the local network,  the stream will be rolling at about 10-20kb/s, but as soon as i load a webpage like cnn.com for example, the wireless card will choke down to like 3kb/s.  i thought it may be the driver for the wireless card or something, but i've had the same problem on the laptop in linux and windows98.  even when i am doing nothing on the laptop but web browsing, it only gets about 5kb/s.  this machine has two nics - eth0=192.168.0.x <but this gets changed to 0.0.0.0 before the bridge comes up>, eth1=<doesn't have an ip, it's only there for the bridge> and of course br0=192.168.0.x.   has anyone seen problems similar to this?  or am i a complete idiot and missing something in my bridge configuation maybe (i'm sure this is a likely possiblity)?  any suggestions/comments would be greatly appreciated.  thanks in advance. -mike gaerttner p.s.  i'd just like to say that this is an awesome project.  projects like this are why more and more people are using linux every day.  thank you, and keep up the good work lennert.