Bridgeing with orinoco modules

[David Gibson]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:33:54PM -0700, Vic Berdin wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've tried bridgeing my Orinoco silver card (using
> orinoco mods from pcmcia-cs-3.1.33) and a realtek pci
> card (rtl8139.o) and the bridge (brg0) went up without
> any hassle. But my problem is that, the wireless
> device can't seem to perform its task. I'm also
> broadcasting DHCP service over the bridge, and only
> the rtl device was able to supply settings into its
> clients. My wireless peer-to-peer client (a windows
> machine) is ABLE to see that another adhoc device is
> running, but is not able to grab DHCP settings from
> from the wireless bridge.
> I've tried this setup using my Intersil card
> (hostap_cs.o & this time the wireless device is an AP
> bridged along with the pci eth) and everything works
> fine. My wireless windows machine is able to grab DHCP
> settings.
> But without the bridge on first setup, everything
> works fine.
> Has anyone experienced this and came up with a
> solution? Please advise.

Um, yes, I've heard there are troubles with bridging with the orinoco
driver.  I haven't looked at the hostap driver recently enough to know
what the difference.  Does anyone know exactly what a driver needs to
provide in order to support bridging?

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