On Monday 09 June 2003 23:10, David Coulson wrote: > B. J. Zolp wrote: > > Do I need to do something special with my wireless card in order to get > > it to work in a bridge? I have seen some info about needing a wireless > > card that can do master (AP) mode. Is this required for bridging? I > > only want the wireless card to connect up to an access point, I do not > > want it to act as an access point itself. > > I believe you may need a firmware upgrade for your wireless device so > that it can function as a bridge port - Even though the network device > is set to promisc in Linux, I believe that something in the firmware > will still drop packets which do not belong to it. I tried to bridge a > wireless device a year or so ago, realised it was too much hard work and > gave up. > > David
Does anyone know what cards/chipsets can be made to work as bridges? I have a Belkin PCI card using 8211 chipset. I would not mind buying a different PCI card if it means it will work. thanks _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
